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Example sentences for "putrid"

Lexicographically close words:
putrefy; putrefying; putrescence; putrescent; putrescible; putridity; putrified; putrifying; puts; putt
  1. That which had been put into the air when just dead was quite firm; and the flesh of the other, which had been putrid and soft, was still soft, but perfectly sweet.

  2. The strong thriving state of your mint in putrid air seems to shew that the air is mended by taking something from it, and not by adding to it.

  3. These facts certainly demonstrate, that air which either arises from stagnant and putrid water, or which has been for some time in contact with it, must be very unfit for respiration; and yet Dr.

  4. In some cases also the mixture of fixed air had by no means so much effect on the putrid air as, from the generality of my observations, I should have expected.

  5. The strong thriving state of your mint, in putrid air, seems to shew, that the air is mended by taking something from it, and not by adding to it.

  6. But this account seems liable to this obvious objection, that as putrid fish, &c.

  7. Here now forever with the lustful worms I lie within my putrid sunken sty, And through eternity my soul shall die.

  8. At last My body is aweary of the tomb; It is a hundred years since in the grave I have lain down between four narrow walls, Shut up with putrid darkness and the worm.

  9. A putrid ulcer lurks in your tender mouth, which it would not be right to grate against with vulgar beet.

  10. Are putrid sores, catarrhs that seldom kill, 130 And crippled limbs, forsooth, so great an ill!

  11. A tall young man, with a beard, Kaireekeea by name, having presented Cook to the idols, old Koah put the putrid hog to his nose, and then let it drop.

  12. It is generally supposed that putrid urine acts on the wool by the ammonia which it contains, and that this serves to saponify the remainder of the fatty matter not combined with the potash.

  13. The decomposition or putrefaction of the blue vat is an accident the reverse of the preceding, arising from the transition of the acetous into the putrid fermentation, whereby the dyeing faculty is destroyed.

  14. At the blowpipe, it exhales a very perceptible smell of putrid radishes.

  15. The flax should be taken out of the steep whenever the acetous fermentation is complete, before the putrid begins, and exposed, for 2 or 3 weeks, on the grass.

  16. They used the water carried in such bags, which were putrid with recent sweat, and multiplied the great suffering caused by hunger, to make barley bread for the army.

  17. How terribly were their fine stomachs revolted by the bitterness of the putrid liquid.

  18. The abdomen had subsided still farther; early in February she passed a quantity of putrid purulent matter from the rectum, after which the abdomen diminished considerably.

  19. Ferguson, arises from vitiation of the blood, by the introduction of putrid matter into the circulation; a form which has not only a great disposition to assume a typhoid character, but also to become epidemic.

  20. Occasionally the discharge is excessively putrid and offensive.

  21. Indeed, we may say, that by the time the peritonitis is fairly established, the introduction of putrid virus into the circulation has been of sufficient duration and extent to render the production of adynamic symptoms almost unavoidable.

  22. Seeing then that an absorption of putrid matter will bring on a puerperal fever, with common symptoms, may we not conclude that the putrid miasms of lying-in hospitals will produce the same effect?

  23. He considers "these phenomena to result from an actual poisoning of the blood, similar appearances being observed in all cases where putrid matter and morbid secretions have been introduced into the system.

  24. But this conclusion must be founded like that which says, "a green winter makes a fat churchyard," on the fact that humid warmth continued on late in the year tends to engender putrid ferments, and to weaken the bodily vigour.

  25. Strawberries are especially suitable in inflammatory and putrid fevers, and for catarrhal sore throats.

  26. In the early part of the present century, a medicine of Capsicum with salt was famous for curing severe influenza with putrid sore throat.

  27. Sometimes also the juices oozing from the putrid meat soak a small extent of the sandy floor.

  28. In short, the Necrophorus has no exclusive preferences; anything putrid he conveys underground.

  29. Torrents of very cold rain fell, furious squalls lashed the sea to a boil, thick fogs obscured the atmosphere; and the ship had to be worked by men "covered with sores and putrid ulcers, each day seeing the number of the sick augmented.

  30. Then looked he up to the top of the tree, and as he looked he beheld on the top of the tree an eagle, and when the eagle shook itself, there fell vermin and putrid flesh from off it, and these the sow devoured.

  31. And he saw that she was eating putrid flesh and vermin.

  32. The young birds advanced at once and began tearing at the flesh; while the two old birds stayed where they had alighted, as if disinclined to feed on half-putrid meat.

  33. Even at first it was small and the water had a slightly putrid taste, the cause of which having been discovered, the water had become still less palatable.

  34. The gentleman told him of the riot in the park, and narrated the blasphemy of the German Lutheran, who had held up a putrid dog in parody of the Holy Mass.

  35. A German horse merchant from the City pulled a putrid cat out of the river mud and held it over his head.

  36. When the fray was done, 220 No remnant of the exterminated faith Survived to tell its ruin, but the flesh, With putrid smoke poisoning the atmosphere, That rotted on the half-extinguished pile.

  37. Beyond Mankambira's we saw burned villages, and the putrid bodies of many who had fallen by Mazitu spears only a few days before.

  38. Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

  39. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.

  40. To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.

  41. A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.

  42. It is quite evident that neglected cases with putrid membranes are poor subjects for this method, as the afterbirth is liable to tear across, leaving a mass in the womb.

  43. It may also occur as a complication of gastrointestinal catarrh or in hot weather from overheating or damaged (putrid or fermented) feeds.

  44. This is a valuable precaution against infecting the cow by introducing putrid ferments into the passages and against poisoning of the arm by decomposing discharges in case the calving is unduly protracted.

  45. Sometimes good rain water can be furnished in limestone districts, but putrid or bad-smelling rain water is to be avoided as probably more injurious than that from the limestone.

  46. Franck records three instances of rapidly fatal metritis in cows, all of which had been poisoned from an adjacent cow with retained and putrid afterbirth.

  47. It usually results from injuries sustained in calving or from irritation by putrid matters in connection with retained afterbirth, or from the use of some object in the vagina (pessary) to prevent eversion of the womb.

  48. Aborting cows often fail to expel the afterbirth, and if this remains hanging in a putrid condition it is most injurious to pregnant cows in the near vicinity.

  49. The operator should smear his arms with carbolized lard or vaseline to protect them against infection, and particularly in delayed cases with putrid membranes.

  50. After the removal of the calf and its membranes the danger of putrid poisoning may be obviated by injecting the antiseptic solution advised in the paragraph above.

  51. The Garden of the Antilles" looked like a putrid swamp, and she had not a beauty on her.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "putrid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.