How To Use Foul-smelling In A Sentence

  • His night watchman, assigned by the doge, was amazed to see their honored guest pull himself out of the water shivering and foul-smelling. THE FAMILY
  • These issues aside, it is also very unpleasant to have foul-smelling smoke blowing into your face when you are trying to enjoy for example, a meal.
  • One of the most terrifying sights in the animal world is an elephant in a state of must: Huge bulls, oozing a weird, foul-smelling, greenish glop from glands near their eyes, behave with violent abandon, taking risks and defying the basic rules of pachyderm propriety and also giving rise to the term "rogue elephant". NYT > Home Page
  • The knock-on effect is that the streets are sewers of foul-smelling rubbish and discarded flyers, with which the council seems woefully unequipped and disinclined to deal.
  • Two feet down in the dirty, foul-smelling water were valves essential to the pumping operation that had to be opened.
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  • “My back itches, Spiller,” Galan said, and Spiller took off the bandage and poulticed the wound with foul-smelling liniment, and obligingly scratched up and down his spine. Wildfire
  • Because the well water is discoloured and foul-smelling, people have to walk about two kilometres looking for cleaner water.
  • Thank god for foul-smelling German army jackets bought in moments in weakness from ratty markets in Berlin.
  • Ray is a font of information, dissecting samples with a special knife called a dibber, none to more effect than a white mushroom called the 'Witch's Egg', which when sliced in two reveals a yellowing layer of foul-smelling slime encasing a grey gooey jelly. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • The room they entered was a dark, foul-smelling cellar.
  • Titan life's metabolism might involve chemical compounds such as phosphine and hydrogen sulfide, which are both foul-smelling gases that are toxic to humans. SPACE.com
  • The lake near the factory was covered with grey, foul-smelling scum.
  • On the unwashed floor a heap of straw covered with dirty bedtick for a bed; a foul-smelling slop-pail in the middle of the room; a crazy stove, and back of it a door or gap opening upon darkness. Children of the Tenements
  • Environmental health officers have launched an investigation after a shopper bought "foul-smelling" chickens from a York store.
  • The severity of symptoms will depend upon the amount and the specific location of small intestine involved but may include diarrhea, steatorrhea, foul-smelling flatulence, and weakness.
  • A troop of foul-smelling marine iguanas warm themselves in the sun in the Galapagos Islands.
  • He lay on a filthy, stained bed in a foul-smelling ward.
  • : bright, glistening olid: foul-smelling oppugnant: combative, antagonistic, or contrary recrement: waste matter, refuse, dross reborant Club Troppo
  • The furniture was smoldering charcoal; the ash that she'd glimpsed was a foul-smelling carpet. THE HELLBOUND HEART
  • Foul-smelling skunk cabbage bloom along the Quinault River in Washington's Hoh River Valley temperate rain forest. The Park is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
  • Shivering, she was then pushed into a hut where sixty other inmates existed from day to day, fearful, foul-smelling and enfeebled. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • The city is covered by a foul-smelling cloud of smoke.
  • The lake near the factory was covered with grey, foul-smelling scum.
  • Every article of clothing reeks of foul-smelling smoke and those that cannot easily be washed have to be hung outside for days.
  • I think the idea is stupid in any case — the best solution to a collapsing over-valued and over-leveraged real estate market is probably not trying to reinflate the bubble — but the nature of the tax credit could be an especially foul-smelling turd on top of this pile of excrement. Matthew Yglesias » Bipartisan Folly
  • I suffer frequently from indigestion, incomplete evacuation, passing hard, foul-smelling stools and gaseous distension.
  • The eyes bulge, the lips distort and foul-smelling gases ooze from every orifice.
  • And lastly, a tight foreskin is unhygienic and leads to the accumulation of a foul-smelling cheesy material (called smegma) underneath it. Rediff.com
  • Because the well water is discoloured and foul-smelling, people have to walk about two kilometres looking for cleaner water.
  • African viverrids tend to be carnivorous, but the civets common to China prefer to dine on fruit, especially spiky, foul-smelling durians.
  • Research shows 90 percent of bad breath comes from foul-smelling gases produced by bacteria on the surface of the tongue.
  • The severity of symptoms will depend upon the amount and the specific location of small intestine involved but may include diarrhea, steatorrhea, foul-smelling flatulence, and weakness.
  • Now he sat under a lamp-post in Harrison Street with the bucket of foul-smelling pigswill beside him. AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
  • An infected pressure ulcer may be characterized by erythema, edema, induration, and purulent or foul-smelling drainage.
  • She poured a measure of greenish, foul-smelling liquid from a tightly stoppered jar into the bowl and added a sprinkling of sweet scented dried herbs in as well.
  • They cruise slowly through the water, cavernous mouths agape, skin covered in a foul-smelling mucous and often trailing long threads of algae from their long pectoral fins.
  • To begin with the surface is coherent – now and again she smiles sadly at the charm he manages to bestow on that foul-smelling tannery – but as she turns the pages she sees it start to break down. Rachel Cusk | Portraits
  • A troop of foul-smelling marine iguanas warm themselves in the sun in the Galapagos Islands.
  • Every article of clothing reeks of foul-smelling smoke and those that cannot easily be washed have to be hung outside for days.
  • A select group of chemists, however, rarely handle flasks of foul-smelling fluids.
  • They help their overworked, underpaid teacher haul water from a well down the road, not far from a foul-smelling outhouse.
  • The moat was clogged with debris and weeds, silted and foul-smelling. HERE BE DRAGONS
  • Throughout the region, pristine beaches, bustling towns and breathtaking blue waters were turned into brown, foul-smelling, debris-strewn places of death.
  • Fox was alongside of us, brewing up a foul-smelling soup to help replenish Zertik's health.
  • The boats are launched after being towed by ancient and foul-smelling tractors.
  • I drove over the foul-smelling, disinfectant bath and then past a taped-off woodland area before parking up among a surprisingly large number of cars.
  • The lake near the factory was covered with grey, foul-smelling scum.

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