Verb (used with object) : The bacteria decomposed the milk into its solid and liquid elements.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : The egg began to decompose after a day in the sun.    From Dictionary.com. 

The body of her other son, was "decomposing" at another morgue, the paper reported.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

We amend the soil with organic material such as decomposing leaves or compost from the piles at the edge of the yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columnist: Keith Groller] Reference

     Mona lay on the couch, maw gaped, decomposing.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Old Sweet Song] Reference

My feet become the wet, cold, decomposing leaves underneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creature, to an Empty Chair] Reference

Other types of decomposing organic matter can get even hotter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

 Bits of his orange fur still clumped onto his decomposing skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor, Dead Hamilton] Reference

A deer — blown open and decomposing — laid awkwardly in their path.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Weird Gods] Reference

Prof. ASPER: The microbes are decomposing the oil and using up the oxygen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientists Use Canisters To Detect Spilled Oil] Reference

All told, more than a million Americans gazed upon the decomposing Lincoln.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Goodbye] Reference

It had lost the brackish taste of dead leaves decomposing in a rusty enamel bucket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watershed] Reference

In fact, the kitchen is swarming with flies because of food decomposing in the sink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home shoppers beware of click-fix digital makeovers] Reference

Today, the bloated and decomposing heads of the enemy are shown around the world by the media.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL AND CORRECTIONS] Reference

But the problem is that they are running under the destroyed houses and the decomposing bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Schuller: Falling through the cracks or unstable foundations?] Reference

Their decomposing leaves and stalks serve to cover the embryonic seed asleep in the cold ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donna Henes: Autumn: Season of Ripe Maturity] Reference

 Now, in the doorway of the laundry room, the mortar holding the bricks together was decomposing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whites in Hot Water] Reference

Manure from cattle and other multi-stomached ruminants also contains cellulose-decomposing bacteria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

(Soundbite of rustling sound) MIROFF: Lorenzo Ramos is making fertilizer here from decomposing sugar cane stalks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reform On The Range: Cubans Heed The Call To Farm] Reference

Organic matter decomposing in soil opens and loosens soil and makes the earth far more welcoming to plant growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

Many of them are washed down by the rains into the subsoil, and some are found in the decomposing rocks themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference

His decomposing body was found stuffed into a bag in the bath of his flat in Pimlico, central London, three days ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gareth Williams murder inquiry reveals intensely private man] Reference

After maturity, the trees would have to be preserved from decomposing; otherwise carbon dioxide would rise into the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Out For The Garbage Police] Reference

They conjure thoughts of neurons not firing and hearts beating their last beats and tissue decomposing beneath the soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get Lost, Grim Reaper] Reference

The wells have been contaminated by floodwater, lots of animals were trapped by floods and their bodies are decomposing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pakistan floods: 'No one was prepared for this. People are angry and afraid'] Reference

On Dec. 16, searchers found True's decomposing body in a two-foot deep grave on a riverbank deep in the wilderness he loved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death In The Mountains] Reference

And on Dec. 16, searchers found True's decomposing body in a two-foot-deep grave on a riverbank deep in the wilderness he loved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death In The Mountains] Reference

  Outside the city, they will have to pass by huge piles of decomposing garbage to visit Pompeii, Herculaneum and Mount Vesuvius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trash City] Reference

"I see this as a scientific challenge," he says, as maggots work efficiently on 20 or so corpses decomposing in the early autumn sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down On The Body Farm] Reference

Haglund and local laborers later dug down; at five feet, they came upon a layer of decomposing corpses, lying pressed together in a row.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death Convoy Of Afghanistan] Reference

Instead of making compost heaps or sheet composting, the garden is kept thickly covered with a permanent layer of decomposing vegetation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

Two photographs, called "Witness," show mangled and seemingly decomposing clay bodies sprawled in the dirt, partially covered with leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surprised, General?] Reference

Otherwise, the decomposition process will take a very long time because large numbers of decomposing organisms will not be able to develop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

There were several processes for decomposing the water explained to me, but the one preferred, and almost universally used by the people of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference