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How to use the word decomposition in a Sentence?

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He was real specific in his will that he didn’t want that, we are going to respect that. But in the condition his body was in, according to the examiner, that probably would have been a moot point because of the decomposition.

Marion Barber II

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

For a child's life to be successful, the forces of composition have to be greater than the forces of decomposition.

Bill Bennett

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The body has undergone extensive decomposition at this point, now it's all over. There's no way meaningful scientific studies can be done. But there’s no question about the pneumonia. This was shown and proven. There’s no question at all about the advanced pneumonia or the iron deficiency. That cannot be avoided… Still, it’s all too late now.

Cyril Wecht

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Both of the dogs reacted to the trunk of the silver Nissan that the defendant had driven and that the blue laundry basket was recovered from, indicating that the dogs were responding to the scent of human decomposition in the vehicle.

Pat Stayton

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

… There was so much decomposition and there was nothing, but bones left, she was skeletonized basically … But I think based on the crime scene, what it looked like and what items were recovered — it was pretty consisted with her having been murdered at that site.

Joe McCann

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We sampled the remains during six months of decomposition and we could identify 452 different compounds, from all those compounds we searched for human specific compounds using principal component analysis and we could identify a combination of eight compounds that were specific for human and pig remains.

Leuven PhD student Elien Rosier

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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