How do you use Decayed in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like rotten or rotted, plus the exact meaning.
Decayed meaning
- Having undergone decay, rotted.
- Reduced in circumstances; having lost one's status or fortune.
Using Decayed
- The main meaning on this page is: Having undergone decay, rotted. | Reduced in circumstances; having lost one's status or fortune.
- Useful related words include: rotten, rotted, unsound.
- In the example corpus, decayed often appears in combinations such as: decayed and, had decayed, have decayed.
Context around Decayed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 8 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Decayed
- In this selection, "decayed" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, either, heavily, duff, oak, shroud and remains stand out and add context to how "decayed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include arise from decayed communities and and as it decayed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "decayed" sits close to words such as abang, abetting and accented, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with decayed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The vehicles are clearly very very decayed. (7 words)
The ground warms much faster with the excess residue decayed over winter. (12 words)
I simply pictured a host of decayed people rising from the bowels` of the earth. (15 words)
Before the box is opened, the cat, by nature of its being alive or dead, has information about the state of the apparatus (the atom has either decayed or not decayed); but the experimenter does not have information about the state of the box contents. (45 words)
The gases causing the explosions, said Mr. Chuvilin, may have built up to their current pressure tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago as the organic components of the permafrost partially decayed, before freezing. (35 words)
Jardine 1821 p.6 Within the vault, inside the remnants of a decayed oak coffin, there was a body entirely enclosed in lead, with a decayed shroud of cloth of gold over it. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Before the box is opened, the cat, by nature of its being alive or dead, has information about the state of the apparatus (the atom has either decayed or not decayed); but the experimenter does not have information about the state of the box contents.
Jardine 1821 p.6 Within the vault, inside the remnants of a decayed oak coffin, there was a body entirely enclosed in lead, with a decayed shroud of cloth of gold over it.
Baloyi told “The Star” that she was concerned at the fast pace at which the city had decayed.
In 1978, a garment bag containing a woman's heavily decayed remains was discovered in a remote area of northern Nevada.
Our position in Pear has decayed almost entirely, so we're happy to hold as it's a small portion of the portfolio, but prospective investors must be extremely careful.
The fire is burning in heavy fuels that include deep duff, decayed logs, and timber litter under a dense canopy.
For everything else, we can say it began as permanent, yet it fell apart, wore out, broke down, degraded, decayed, spoiled, and so on.
Since then, more than 100 of these casts have been made, preserving the victims’ shapes along with any remaining bones that hadn’t decayed over the centuries.
As a result, sphagnum moss began to form and cover the area, growing atop itself and forming peat as it decayed.
Cult leaders always arise from decayed communities and societies where political and social and economic power has been stripped away.
Her sign of appreciation: a roll in the proverbial hay, while she rocked someone else's dead, decayed flesh on her face.
In any sample containing C-14, after some 5,730 years, half the atoms will have decayed.
I simply pictured a host of decayed people rising from the bowels` of the earth.
It is dusty, it is unlit, it obeys no traffic rules, its streets are decayed.
The gases causing the explosions, said Mr. Chuvilin, may have built up to their current pressure tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago as the organic components of the permafrost partially decayed, before freezing.
The ground warms much faster with the excess residue decayed over winter.
These are cars that are too broken and decayed to be first cars or similar.
The vehicles are clearly very very decayed.
When visited last year, the windows were broken, floor rotted out and ceiling caving in as the N.P. Johnson School, near Brule, slowly decayed away.
And Bathilda Bagshot’s home is as dirty and decayed as in the books, with the historian’s transformation into Nagini giving audiences a major jump scare.
Common combinations with decayed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- decayed and 8×
- had decayed 7×
- have decayed 6×
- and decayed 6×
- of decayed 5×
- has decayed 5×
- decayed to 4×
- decayed by 4×
- decayed over 3×
- the decayed 3×