Decay example sentences

They secrete digestive juices on the dead and decaying matter and convert it into a solution.They found tiny mushrooms over the decaying leaves.Its deficiency in drinking water is harmful to man and causes diseases such as tooth decay etc.It also contains bits of decayed living organisms which is called humus.A Famine is characterised by wide spread deaths due to starvation and epidemics caused by forced use of contaminated water or decaying food and loss of body resistance due to weakening from starvation.The decaying animal dung also provides nutrients to the seedlings to grow”, said Prof Ahmad.This leads to anaerobic conditions, commonly with accumulation of abnoxious decay and animal death.Walking over the dead leaf layer on the forest floor was like walking over a spongy carpet! Is the decaying matter always warm? Prof Ahmad suggested that the children could perform an activity to get an answer to this question.Some havelis were taken over by the upcoming mercantile class, but many fell into decay and disuse.Work on the radioactive decay series for uranium and thorium in the early years of twentieth century was also guided by the Periodic Table.The forest floor seemed dark coloured and was covered with a layer of dead and decaying leaves, fruits, seeds, twigs and small herbs.While Surat and Hoogly decayed, Bombay and Calcutta grew.Boojho called every one and showed them a large, decaying heap of animal dropping.This mode of nutrition in which organisms take in nutrients in solution form from dead and decaying matter is called saprotrophic nutrition.They came across numerous insects, spiders, squirrels, ants and various other small animals on the bark of the trees, plant leaves and on decaying leaves on the forest floor.