fetid

How To Use fetid In A Sentence

• Hog waste is a major pollution source, communities surrounding the factories are strangled by a foetid stench and animal rights groups have long complained about the inhumane way pigs are raised and slaughtered.
• The dog snapped its jaws open and closed inches from Rae's face and he could smell the animal's fetid breath, choking him, causing him to gag.
• She turned the knob and was enveloped in a shroud of fetid air as the door swung open.
• Why then mystify the clear and limpid line by making of the rituals cloistered and fetid mysteries when they are open to the sky, unregimented, free, and democratic? An Autobiography
• Place the flour, turmeric, cumin, coriander, asafoetida and salt in a bowl.
• We follow the tracks across the cracked mudflats, out past the sunken pilings now exposed and bleached by sun, to the deepest channel turned fetid pond. Three Prayers for Rain
• They are still no showers for people who have walked for hours through fetid waters.
• A report on the effect of spices on digestive enzymes mentioned that freshly prepared 1 per cent emulsion of asafoetida in water affected the activity of pepsin, trypsin and rennin in saliva to a small extent 41.
• The necromancer appealed for my support, entreating me to stand firm by him, and to have assafetida flung upon the coals; so I turned to Vincenzio Romoli, and told him to make the fumigation at once. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
• Dietary asafoetida, cumin and onion also significantly enhanced the activity of pancreatic amylase.