Doors had partially rotted away and hung in chunks from their hinges.

This is because it is adapted to tear the weak flesh of partially rotted carrion, rather than fresh meat.

Usually the stumps were left for two or three years until partially rotted when they were more easily pulled from the soil.

They loomed out of the mist, cadaverous beasts, partially rotted.

It has been used in a few cases to treat partially rotted wooden objects to be displayed in museums.

As wear had damaged the abutments, and as the floor had partially rotted, the Shelby County Engineer's Office closed the bridge in 1985.

A partially rotted rustic garden seat was set back on some broken paving slabs.

When she woke up the next morning, Canola realized the wind had created the music by blowing through partially rotted sinew still attached to a whale skeleton.

He lay on the partially rotted straw and stared at them with widened eyes filled with terror.

"The leather of the bags is soggy and partially rotted," she said, "and if we overfill them, we are apt to burst the sacks."