How do you use Decaying in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Decaying meaning
present participle and gerund of decay
Using Decaying
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of decay
- In the example corpus, decaying often appears in combinations such as: the decaying, and decaying, of decaying.
Context around Decaying
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 7 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Decaying
- In this selection, "decaying" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, rapidly, slowly, fast, element, states and wood stand out and add context to how "decaying" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a desolate decaying ghetto of and a rapidly decaying element a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "decaying" sits close to words such as architectures, atv and bader, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with decaying
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Many species will even be beneficial, recycling decaying matter back into the soil. (13 words)
Now it is well along in the process of decaying into rich organic matter. (14 words)
Fast-decaying states have a broad linewidth, while slow decaying states have a narrow linewidth. (15 words)
Light to moderate trades will begin to develop again late Saturday as the front moves into the northwest islands, with moderate trades then filling back in statewide Sunday through early next week as the decaying front shifts down the island chain. (41 words)
The album's themes reflected the state of America through the decaying Los Angeles rock scene, which by the mid-'70s had changed from an earnest singer-songwriter community into a far more decadent lifestyle fueled by celebrity, money, and drugs. (41 words)
But you should all know this from common sense, and you should all be absolutely ashamed to see the center of our local government turning into a desolate, decaying ghetto of government buildings and human waste. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Consider a mixture of a rapidly decaying element A, with a half-life of 1 second, and a slowly decaying element B, with a half-life of 1 year.
Fast-decaying states have a broad linewidth, while slow decaying states have a narrow linewidth.
They are unstable, with the charged pions and decaying with a mean lifetime of 26 nanoseconds (main seconds), and the neutral pion decaying with a much shorter lifetime of main seconds.
Because earwigs like to hide in damp and decaying wood, a bug expert at Western University recommends keeping yards clear of debris as a way to avoid earwig encounters.
But you should all know this from common sense, and you should all be absolutely ashamed to see the center of our local government turning into a desolate, decaying ghetto of government buildings and human waste.
Encountering these goblins is on its own, rare; however, doing so does not guarantee that they will drop the Reins of the Decaying Steed mount.
Friis initially specialized in lignite, or brown coal, a precursor of black coal that forms from decaying vegetation.
Fruit flies stick to decaying or fermenting fruits and vegetables while drain flies stay around drains, leaky pipes or sewers.
In Beeri and elsewhere near the Gaza border, AFP correspondents on Wednesday saw the decaying bodies of militants.
In fact, it signalled the end of the already decaying idea of police as the defenders of the public against crime and disorder, something you will have noticed they barely bother with now.
In Maine, the wood roach is a common cockroach found in wooded and forested areas where it eats decaying organic matter.
It has multiple urban centers but is not yet truly urbanized, ranging from the chaotic and decaying megalopolis of Karachi to the more sedate boulevards of the capital city Islamabad.
It is a pinprick in time, a settlement established a century ago by the first Mormon converts who came from the Hawaiian islands to Utah, history maintained by decaying graves.
Light to moderate trades will begin to develop again late Saturday as the front moves into the northwest islands, with moderate trades then filling back in statewide Sunday through early next week as the decaying front shifts down the island chain.
Many species will even be beneficial, recycling decaying matter back into the soil.
Mr Waring said that this is creating a natural build-up of silt from decaying products.
Now it is well along in the process of decaying into rich organic matter.
Riya arrived in decaying Chadder Vale five years ago and has since been searching for that ‘one big crime’, the challenge that will make her feel alive again.
The album's themes reflected the state of America through the decaying Los Angeles rock scene, which by the mid-'70s had changed from an earnest singer-songwriter community into a far more decadent lifestyle fueled by celebrity, money, and drugs.
The Church of the Holy Cross in Harju-Risti did not have the conditions in place at the time to prevent the wood from decaying further.
Common combinations with decaying
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the decaying 27×
- and decaying 13×
- of decaying 12×
- decaying infrastructure 7×
- by decaying 6×
- decaying with 4×
- from decaying 4×
- to decaying 4×
- decaying organic 4×
- in decaying 4×