Soon (or at least as his people measured time), he would be forced to watch them pass from youth into inevitable decay and thence into death.

A sense of gentle but inevitable decay pervades Guyana's capital.

If you neglect it, entropy can set in with the result of inevitable decay.

There is nothing in it that would save the galaxy, or alter the course of the empire's inevitable decay.

But we did not notice the dirt or the shortages, nor the traces of inevitable decay after four years of war.

If we couldn't touch her, we could see her, looking remarkably well, thank you very much, despite all those years away and all the inevitable decay.

Castiglia's work can be viewed as an examination of the human experience, caught in a cycle of inevitable decay and biological futility.

Entrails in giant barrels in seconds began the inevitable decay.

The rust can function metaphorically, too, reminding the viewer of his own inevitable decay.

The sculptures were purposefully made of a material that slowly dissolves over time to represent the inevitable natural decay that faces all living things.