This old house, for example, which sometimes has positively oppressed my breath with its smell of decaying timber!
They undertook additional repair works, and set aside a budget for the replacement of decaying timbers.
It has been found living on decaying timber in a deep oceanic trench in the Bahamas.
Dead and decaying timber are also left untouched on the forest floor for insects.
Only the lapping of the wavelets against its decaying timbers signaled its presence.
Eventually the cycle of decaying timbers, mortar and plants followed by renewed plant growth reduces the site of the building to a low mound.
The end of a decaying timber projected; below it was the stump of a crumbling concrete pipe two feet in diameter.
A figure was pressed against a decaying timber.
Those in the timber industry see waste in the decaying timber.
The female of this beetle will lay eggs in any damp, decaying timber, which has been attacked by fungus.