How to use "decay" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "decay" in popular movie and book plots

  • As the novel progresses, social and economic relationships break down, mirrored by the gentle decay of the hotel.  - Troubles (novel)
  • Finally his thoughts decay into a drawn-out death.  - The Death of Artemio Cruz
  • Cross smells decay and sees flies.  - Cat and Mouse (novel)
  • As he watches, his surroundings decay and collapse to dust.  - The House on the Borderland
  • Over the procession are Poe's words: "And darkness and decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all".  - The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film)
  • Later that night Alan begins to have his obsessive-compulsive visions of germs and decay again after seeing his blood-stained uniform.  - The Dentist 2
  • Raoden rediscovers many of the Aons while in Elantris, preserved in scrolls that have not been consumed by the decay of the city.  - Elantris
  • The decay from which the Soviet Union suffered has worsened.  - Moscow 2042
  • Driven mad by the decay of his body, and his longing for blood, Batman begins draining and decapitating all of his old enemies.  - Batman & Dracula trilogy
  • She seems to associate Richard's apartment building with sense of decay and death.  - The Hours (novel)
  • In late 2014, Aura disappears, resulting in the slow decay of The World and the Internet as a whole.  - .hack//G.U.
  • And nor does beauty decay with age, he continues.  - Symposium (Xenophon)
  • They lived in peace in the sphere of Athum for eternity, since there is no time, nor age, nor decay in this world.  - Seth et Holth
  • Humans are proved, in the end, to be just particles and just as bodies decay (a theme in the book) they can also be created from particles.  - Atomised
  • The TARDIS materialises on the station, but the smell of decay and death is everywhere.  - The Two Doctors
  • Energistic power is weak in this place, and entropic decay is far more powerful than normal.  - The Naked God

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