Putrescence used in a sentence

Putrescence in a sentence as a noun

Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth. There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation.

Miasma was understood to emanate from putrescence but was not communicable between people. Germ theory did not take hold until the 19th century.

It would be more accurate to just state that non-functional code is a smell, increasing in putrescence as a function of the quantity of moving parts. The resulting code is simpler, more testable, more reusable, more cohesive, and less coupled.