How to Use rot in a Sentence

rot

1 of 2 verb

• The apples were left to rot.
• The wood had rotted away.
• Eating too much candy can rot your teeth.
• Do not pile mulch against the tree’s trunk; that can cause the bark to rot.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2023
• Since this is a desert species, keeping the dirt moist will cause the roots to rot.
  — Katarina Avendaño, Good Housekeeping, 28 Mar. 2023
• The first is a man, face down on the roots of a tree, rotting on a pathway.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
• May all of their souls rot in hell when their time comes.
  — Colleen Slevin and Matthew Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Dec. 2023
• In the evening, the water may puddle and cause the roots to rot, Stewart added.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
• Though it’s set 60 years in the past, the horrors and rot at the center of the Catholic Church have since come to light publicly.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 8 Mar. 2024
• The rope is also soft to the touch and won't rot or mold, even in the harshest elements.
  — Stefanie Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2023
• Where piles of kelp had washed up to rot on the beach last year, swaths of black sand took over this summer.
  — Emily Schwing, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Oct. 2022
• Even Barry got a quick death, but Cousineau took all the blame and is rotting in prison.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023
• Most yellow jacket nests are in the ground or hollow trees, and the old nests just rot away.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
• The book does point to the fact that, even as the ice rots away, reaching the pole has gotten to be like climbing Denali.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2023
• Why not use leap day to do a little bed rotting and catch up?
  — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 26 Feb. 2024
• Water when the soil feels dry and let the excess drain away to prevent roots from rotting.
  — Lynn Coulter, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Oct. 2023
• The culprit of blossom end rot in tomatoes is not a bug or a disease.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2023
• Decades later, those trees have rotted, sinking the earth down a bit.
  — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
• One side of its trunk is rotting, and the tree has lost several limbs and a major branch.
  — Samantha Latson, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• Old wood in the centers of trees may rot away, erasing years of history.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 3 May 2023
• There’s a rotting half-onion in the fridge because Annie cut it and nobody can bear to throw it out.
  — Catherine Newman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
• When the eggs hatch, the larvae — which are grubs — feed on the core of the plant, leaving it vulnerable to rot from the inside out.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
• My mouth tasted of something sweet and rotting and my face was swollen up like a pool float.
  — Annie Lord, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2023
• The tale is set in an haut-bourgeois paradise that seems to be rotting from within.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
• But piling it up like a volcano around your tree traps moisture against the trunk, which can cause rot.
  — Rachael Baihn, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2022
• Left to rot on the beach, sargassum can turn into a problem.
  — Suman Naishadham, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2023
• Now, most of those same tiny peaches and blooms are rotting off the branches and falling to the ground, Pearson said.
  — Drew Kann The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (tns), al, 4 Apr. 2023
• In some places, the carcasses rot in the open and the pained cries of sick animals are resound in villages.
  — Aniruddha Ghosal, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Sep. 2022
• Turn each gourd every few days and remove any that show signs of rotting.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2023
• Having a persistently damp floor in a bathroom can eventually rot out the floor and lead to very costly repairs.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024

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rot

2 of 2 noun

• That's a lot of rot!
• They found a lot of rot in the house's roof.
• The wind shifted, and an odor of rot enveloped the barge.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2022
• The good news is the Rangers have already cleared out the rot and torn things down to the studs.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2021
• Even as a heap of rot, Nana is Venus, a stream of gold, a myth.
  — Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
• But the moral rot of the lie begins to poison his soul.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2021
• Too much has happened in the country for the rot to have not been there.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2023
• Slide back the plastic trim that rims the wheel arches to look for rot.
  — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 4 Sep. 2023
• Shells of which time had sucked out the rot, things that have done with dying.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
• The rot sets in early, during the school years to be precise.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 23 Dec. 2021
• What is the rot in the democracy that allowed the 6th to happen?
  — Daniella Diaz, CNN, 19 Dec. 2021
• The crop falls to the ground and rots, attracting elephants, drawn to the bounty.
  — Tayari Jones, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2023
• Nothing has been done about the rot that had been eating away at the sport for years.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 May 2021
• The tree can’t absorb soil nutrients because of the rot, and the tree dies.
  — oregonlive, 18 Dec. 2022
• Some senior Catholics have spoken out against the rot in the church and pushed for action.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022
• His face bore not the solemn trace of history but the mark of the national rot to come.
  — Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• The story of the Senate’s rot is first and foremost the story of Mitch McConnell.
  — Ira Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 May 2022
• The rot runs so deep that, per the duo, Republicans should boycott the runoffs.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 4 Dec. 2020
• The 2019 training synopsis MPD shared with us reveals at least some of the rot in the tree.
  — Ayanna Watkins, CNN, 11 Feb. 2023
• The extent of the rot, and the dire risks facing the building and its inhabitants, are well known.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2023
• The boys lost to our culture’s rot need better role models.
  — Liam Siegler, National Review, 30 July 2023
• Last year, my wife and I bought our first house, a 70-year-old Cape Cod with a little rot on the porch and a few cracks in the ceiling.
  — Clint Carter, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2020
• And no need to worry about rot and fungus since the base has slots to allow airflow through the soil.
  — Jennifer Carmichael, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Feb. 2023
• Of course, to many members of the public, the rot is the only thing worth paying attention to.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• And if the rot is pervasive, buy a new roof with a new car under it instead.
  — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2022
• These things take time, though, and the rot at the club ran so deep it cannot be fixed overnight or in one transfer window or in one year.
  — James Nalton, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
• Or, to take the bad-apple analogy on its own clichéd terms, the rot indeed spreads throughout the bunch.
  — Samuel G. Freedman, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
• Paxton is the poster child for the rot created by a one-party system in this state.
  — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 11 Dec. 2020
• These works illustrate how the roots of so much political rot can be found in the past.
  — Kate Cray, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2022
• Some residents have been calling the group, saying that the fruit is already starting to fall off their trees and rot.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024