How to Use rotten in a Sentence

rotten

adjective

• They did a rotten job.
• What rotten weather we're having.
• Here’s the golden rule: When in doubt, toss the maybe-rotten egg out.
  — Zoe Denenberg, Bon Appétit, 24 Jan. 2023
• Gas leaks in the home can take many forms, and not all of them smell like rotten eggs.
  — Lynn Redmile, Good Housekeeping, 3 Jan. 2023
• Do the roots look light colored and healthy or dark and smelling sort of rotten?
  — oregonlive, 30 Oct. 2022
• Even those at the very top of the rotten pyramid had not escaped.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2022
• That the smell of rotten eggs and rotting meat will come out of her kitchen tap again.
  — Sara Sidner, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
• In addition to the area’s stifling heat, the pools reek of rotten eggs.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2021
• Something is rotten in the Great British Bake Off tent.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 11 Nov. 2022
• No one wants to eat an apple that has a rotten core, right?
  — Cameron Fields, cleveland, 3 Oct. 2022
• This is produced as the seaweed rots, and smells like rotten eggs.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2023
• Does the aura that enfolds it not lie at the rotten root of the story of Lydia Tár?
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2022
• The sign was rusted and rotten, giving way to termites and time.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• Rotterdammers were none too pleased and threatened to pelt the yacht with rotten eggs.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2023
• A half-hour north, near the town of Olyphant, a 15-acre fire in an underground coal mine vents a rotten egg smell through crevices and pipes.
  — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2022
• Threads might be the shiny Twitter rival of the week, but Meta has a rotten record with projects outside its core apps.
  — WIRED, 6 July 2023
• This happens to suit a rotten tendency of mine, which is to work rather than play.
  — Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2022
• On Friday, a sour, rotten stench came from the back of the building, where windows were broken.
  — Jesse Bedayn The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2023
• But when life makes strangers cry, our hearts can go cold — like, throw-a-rotten-tomato cold.
  — New York Times, 8 Feb. 2022
• What people watching the video don’t see is that the pies had all kinds of roasted rotten tomatoes in them.
  — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 5 Feb. 2022
• That way, no one has to spend April 9—or any other day of the year, for that matter—feeling ill over a rotten egg.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 12 Mar. 2023
• All of the sudden, things don't seem so rotten for head coach Giovanni Savarese's side.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 21 Apr. 2023
• Like when teams or players run afoul of the NCAA, or one coach calls another coach a dirty rotten scoundrel.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 8 Mar. 2023
• Videos of rotten fruit mauled by maggots played in the elevators whisking guests to the 18th floor.
  — Vogue, 28 Oct. 2023
• But investors in the United States (and the rest of the world for that matter) don’t have much to be grateful for in what is turning out to be a rotten 2022.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 20 Nov. 2022
• Still, American Pie made a big impact on the genre and, ripe or rotten, is still one of the most iconic films on this list.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 30 Nov. 2022
• Ramji admits that the smell can be a challenge: Raw hing has been compared to rotten cabbage.
  — Shalbha Sarda, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
• The epoxy option works well when a section of a window frame or standard door is rotten.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2023
• Or Armstrong could take a sharp left turn and reanimate Roy’s rotten corpse.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2024
• The family’s staff had been tasked with feeding the animals, but often gave them nothing more than rotten meat.
  — Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024