Do we really want it back with a fresh coat of paint over the rotten timbers?

Only a few steps did they proceed, however, for the way was blocked by a mound of earth and chunks of soft, rotten timber.

And injustice in society is like a rotten timber in the foundation of a house.

My joints crack like rotten timber as I move.

In 1992, after an extensive fund-raising campaign, the university did major work on the exterior buildings, replacing rotten timbers, rebuilding the barn.

The bridge is rotten, too frail for the jeep, timbers skewed and loose.

I am like a bit of rotten timber nowadays, my beams are crumbling under me.

The 14th-century temple building was surveyed, rotten timbers were replaced, and the foundations were strengthened.

Alf said there was some rotten timber on the dockside.

He could still feel her there, drawing the strength out of him like the sunlight drawing the wet from rotten timber.