How To Use Odorous In A Sentence

I am not sure if all dumps are this smelly - I know that all dumps are odorous - but it was stinky.
They are dubbed 'odorous' and 'coconut' due to the coconut - or rum-like smell they release when crushed. Livescience.com
Should the turkey spray you with an odorous substance after you kill it, you didn't kill a turkey.
DETAINING the next president of the United States for three hours in what an eyewitness called a "malodorous" small room at an airport in the provincial Russian city of Perm looks, in retrospect, to have been a pretty bad idea. Robert Amsterdam
Basically, low concentration of alkane background gas has no effect on the removal efficiency of malodorous gas. ?

The floor of the cage was slippery with a kind of odorous slime. Starchild Omnibus
The Professor was going to pelt Hugh Mackay with a great, malodorous barrage of bunyip droppings, but then realised there wouldn't be any point.
They smell inodorously -- they do not wash -- they dare not risk cholera. The Innocents Abroad
Many fatty foods are susceptible to autoxidation, involving the oxidation of lipid molecules to produce malodorous ketones, alcohols and acids that adversely affect the texture, flavour and taste of food.
That turned out to be fanciful thinking as instead I found myself in a warm and cheerful place with assistants hard at work and a kettle on the boil, and if there was a funny smell it was, Polly assured me, just her lamb stew at lunch, not the waft of an odorous beast she'd flayed. Kisa Lala: Sculpting Corpses: A Conversation With Taxidermy Artist Polly Morgan
I peer suspiciously at my co-workers lunches to see what they’re shoveling in there that comes out so malodorously. The Bog Report « XUP
It was a warm night, so he didn't need his cloak or Sprout's odorous saddle blanket. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
Now I'm worried it might make the house seem in some way malodorous.
They're called odorous because they have a coconut - or rum-like smell when crushed. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
The elements, viz. Fire, Air, Earth, Water, are inodorous, because both the dry and the moist among them are without sapidity, unless some added ingredient produces it. On Sense and the Sensible
To what end would election officials risk so malodorous an action?
Under the sheltering eaves, led up to the odorous cornloft. Elson Grammar School Literature v4
Certain parts of Shanghai are already fairly malodorous, and as the temperature rises in the coming months, our noses are already set to be treated to more whiffy wafts.
Lady Warnock is handed a baby to feed, ‘a damp and malodorous object’ the like of which she never wished to see again.
Here was the passion of politics on the right, steaming and devout, and malodorously scented with polyester socks and cheap, overused shoes removed and carried inside by every congregant, to avoid them getting lost or stolen if left at the door. Let the Swords Encircle Me
My halibut in banana leaf, which comes garnished with a skewer of 3 shrimp, is a trifecta of disaster; bland, overcooked, and malodorously fishy-smelling - never a good sign. Taste T.O. - Food & Drink In Toronto
There he distilled arsenic with potassium acetate to arrive at a cacodyl (also known as alkarsine or Cadet's liquid), a malodorous compound that the named after the Greek term for ‘stinky’ (kak dl s).
The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water, and over plains, the waving rye-field, the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odorous south wind, which converts all trees to windharps; the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames; or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sittingroom, -- these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion. Essays: Second Series (1844)
The afternoon we went there it was at its hottest and most odorous.
These unfortunate sisters, who were rather malodorously called decayed gentlewomen, became eager and petted pupils of a new and popular organization called the South The Development of Embroidery in America
So judge of our surprise when this wonderful London cousin of ours first produced a large jar of what he called mosquito cream, and proceeded to smear his face and hands with the odorous compound. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure
Some few exude, by incision, odoriferous gums, as benzoin, olibanum, myrrh, &c.; others give, by the same act, what are called balsams, which appear to be mixtures of an odorous oil and an inodorous gum. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants
He then tried to sell me one of his malodorous brown ewes for $50.
But there are other companies in the area dealing with odorous products.
They spend most of the year cramped in dark, often odorous conditions, carrying the full weight of our bodies.
Large barrels of the black, odorous fluid that oozed from pits in the swamp were carried within the walls and lifted to the battlements. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
I was relieved to see that he had not assumed one of his more disgusting disguises-a verminous beggar or odorous camel driver. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
In this way: -- When butter containing a notable proportion of casein and sugar of milk is exposed to the air, the following changes take place: the casein passes into a state of fermentation, and acting upon the sugar of milk, converts it, firstly into the bad-flavored lactic acid, and secondly into the bad odorous butyric, capric, and caproic acids. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
New researches, however, have led to the supposition that the odorous principle of quinces is derived from the ether of pelargonic acid. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants
Although the project could be described as odorous, Gothenburg will probably take money to help pay for it. Nebraska StatePaper.com News
** After digestion, the Komodo dragon regurgitates a mass of horns, hair, and teeth known as the gastric pellet, which is covered in malodorous mucus. Nature Is Awesome: The Komodo Dragon
odorous jasmine flowers
They are ugly, malodorous, fraudulent, and worst of all, brown!
He wondered if perhaps something was in the rubbish bin in the kitchen that was malodorous but it didn't quite have that kind of smell.
Recovering himself, and seeing an "odorous" name in the future, he attempted apology and reparation for the insult, and complete reconciliation. Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865
And for that while, the figure went out of Manuel's saga, thus malodorously accompanied. Figures of Earth
Ninety percent of debtors paid up in 1979 rather than tolerate the presence of the malodorous individual in reception for another five minutes.
And where would they keep the odorous billy-goat until he was needed for the next session?
The walk toward the American Express past the odorous confectioneries of the Via Nationale, through the foul tunnel up to the Spanish Steps, where his spirit soared before the flower stalls and the house where Keats had died. Tender is the Night
By all accounts he'd done so as quickly as possible, and left the small, malodorous room with some haste. NIGHT SISTERS
If anyone in history has ever emitted a bigger pile of oozing, sanctimonious, unctuous, fetid, perfidious, malodorous offal than this, I'd like to know what it could possibly be.
It's worth the odorous torture because the need to travel runs through your veins.
Is Mary not ‘fragrant’ after all, but positively malodorous?
What a truly appalling state of affairs that, without any reasonable basis so to do, an Apparatchik of the State will thus be given a power that is malodorously redolent of a Tin Pot One Party Banana Republic. They Cannot Send All Of Us To The Gulag
odorous garbage
Israel tottered after her, leaving his predigested food untouched on his plate and his imitation coffee steaming malodorously in his cup. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern
Probably as a jocose acknowledgment of the obstructive character of this main approach, the point nearest to its base at which one could take the river (if so inodorously minded) bore the appellation No Thoroughfare
The Scotrail rattler was full of malodorous delegates and there was no First Class and no dining car.
These unfortunate sisters, who were rather malodorously called decayed gentlewomen, became eager and petted pupils of a new and popular organization called the South The Development of Embroidery in America
More strident liberal critics accuse Taranto of using humor to sugarcoat an otherwise malodorous agenda.
The lake by the doorway was barely more than a large pond now, heavy and odorous with effluents leached from the tailings by rains.
The doctor has brought sleeping medicines, malodorous, the colors of dark jewels, but they no longer have an effect.
So as the Thetis crept agonizingly ahead, the bananas danced malodorously in the stateroom. Hawaii
The greater part of the product consists of the inodorous myristic acid, the chief odour-bearing constituent being irone. The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
Storage : Clean, dry, at ambient temperature, away from odorous materials. open bags must be properly re - sealed.
He was a balding, buck-toothed and sweaty short man, and thank God I only had to see his odorous nubby head twice before the drugs started working.
It was unpromising stuff, but Hofmann and others had discovered that by distillation one could separate from it several carbon-rich, odorous organic compounds such as benzene, toluene, xylene, and phenol.
The young often express their reverence by gathering in odorous packs and yelling loudly at bus stops.
I made it finally, and stood there swaying while their malodorous bodies closed in around me. NIGHT SISTERS
They hurried then through endless passages, some smoothly walled and artificially lighted, others rough-hewn in the solid rock, dankly odorous and in Stygian darkness. "Thia of the Drylands" by Harl Vincent, part 3
The greatest piece of good luck that can befall a Continental village is the discovery, within its limits, of a spring supplying some kind of malodorous water. The Ways of Men
Tobermory looked after him for a quizzical moment, then turned his attention to the malodorous bundle.
If anyone in history has ever emitted a bigger pile of oozing, sanctimonious, unctuous, fetid, perfidious, malodorous offal than this, I'd like to know what it could possibly be.
TalstarOne multi-insecticide has no odorous or plant-damaging solvents because its formulation is water based and contains no alpha-cyano group.
Yes, it was easy and unisex, but it was also wet, greasy, required a regiment of malodorous chemicals for upkeep and extensive processing, and looked just plain weird on most.
In one such pathway, binding of odorous molecules to their receptors activates G olf, a GTP-binding protein.
Yes, it was easy and unisex, but it was also wet, greasy, required a regiment of malodorous chemicals for upkeep and extensive processing, and looked just plain weird on most.
However, he had thrown his old campaigning sagum over his finery — a thick, greasy, malodorous cape which could keep out the perishing winds of the alpine passes or the soaking days-long downpours of Epirus. The First Man in Rome
It was a Naples of the north, ‘a picturesque, odorous, inconvenient, old - fashioned town’.
Her nakedness yielded to him, radiant, warm, odorous and lavish-limbed, enfolded him like a shining cloud, enfolded him like water with a liquid life; and like a cloud of vapour or like waters circumfluent in space the liquid letters of speech, symbols of the element of mystery, flowed forth over his brain. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Here it is… equally malodorous, mendacious, but it's up there on the Web for all to see, truth is stranger than fiction.
The ultimate target was Primakov, but the Kremlin's strategy was first to blast Luzhkov so as to turn him into a burdensome, malodorous albatross around the former prime minister's neck.
Michael Behe wrote A malodorous argument for Darwinian evolution. 2010 April - Telic Thoughts
Albeit a somewhat watered-down analog of garlic, their more malodorous cousin, raw onions are one of the best medicinal foods.
Nor is it likely that anything will be done until the whole system of managing town refuse is changed, and in place of deluging it with water, some plan can be contrived which, while fulfilling sanatory requirements, shall preserve it in a concentrated form, or convert it into a dry and inodorous substance. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry
A coarse country filled with malodorous women that sang from the shores. Sirens
‘Comparisons’, one of Shakespeare's finest word-muddlers tell us, ‘are odorous.’
Some identify the nataf with the gum of the storer tree (Styraz officinale), but all that is positively known is that it signifies an odorous distillation from some plant. Smith's Bible Dictionary
The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water, and over plains, the waving rye-field, the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odorous south wind, which converts all trees to windharps; the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames; or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sitting-room, these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion. XIV. Essays. Nature. 1844
If a person continually inhales odorous air, fatigue sets in, due to the adaptation of the nervous responses to the stimuli.
The story starts with the discovery of the body of an elderly man in a malodorous basement. Film
Far too much contemporary film criticism, whether journalistic or academic, is bedeviled by equally odorous orthodoxies.
There was the cold boar's head, decorated with flowers; the fattest turkey, roasted before the great fire; boiled beef, bathed in odorous krout, and declared delicacies by every sturdy Dutchman; a spiced ham, decorated with vegetables. The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family
But, nature is a bolder artist than even the daring scenic painters; in front of me was a prairie of flowers, acres and acres of waving, undulating masses of color; thousands of Arizona wyetha (wild sunflowers) mingled with the brilliant tips of the fire-weed and clumps of odorous and delicately colored horsemint. The Black Wolf Pack
So you can imagine my surprise when I open the door to find two odorous men, half-heartedly mumbling that they're here to ‘move me’.
The silent, malodorous site was surrounded by a corrugated tin fence topped with coils of barbed wire.
odorous salt pork and weevily hardtack
A savory, warming bowlful proves the sumptuous ends justify the malodorous means. No Need to Gripe About Tripe
But what happens to these odorous, spring-laden behemoths?
I did not go to the loo once - I drank only a litre of water, when I got home my pee was dark brown and odorous.
The largest public concern is the generation and transport of malodorous compounds across the landscape.
County Legislator Wally Huckno, D-Jamestown, called Mueller's proposal '' odorous '' and Post-Journal
Anything faintly or potentially malodorous is despatched briskly.
The eating of garlic is well known for causing a particularly pungent malodorous breath that can have unpleasant social consequences.
I made it finally, and stood there swaying while their malodorous bodies closed in around me. NIGHT SISTERS
Comparisons are "odorous," we know, as the learned Dogberry hath said; but the writer means nothing unkind by these remarks. Social relations in our Southern States,
A summer hotel stretched its verandas along a lovely level; everywhere in clovery hollows and on breezy knolls were gray old farmhouses and summer cottages-like weather-beaten birds 'nests, and like freshly painted marten-boxes; but all of a cold New England neatness which made me homesick for my malodorous Spanish fishing-village, shambling down in stony lanes to the warm tides of my native seas. Literature and Life (Complete)
Besides these discomforts, there was a pungent, acrid plant which, apart from its strong odorous emissions, struck me smartly on the face, leaving a burning effect similar to cayenne; and the atmosphere, pent in by the density of the jungle, was hot and stifling, and the perspiration transuded through every pore, making my flannel tatters feel as if I had been through a shower. How I Found Livingstone
On such a morning, then, when the vast concave of the heavens, expanded in a perfectly spotless azure sky (such as in our foggy isle is never seen); and with the freshness of the bush developing its verdure in the odorous exudations of floriferous plants, and the blithesome exuberance of the songless denizens of nature's nemoral aviary; William took his departure on the mission we have detailed in the last chapter. Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter
Giuliani disposed of it through politics, and left a malodorous dilemma on Bloomberg's desk.
Like the river from which it takes its name, the series may occasionally seem picturesque but closer inspection reveals malodorous and stagnant depths.
She was solid, a block of doughy flesh, ample and tactile and pleasantly odorous.
Skunks repel attackers with a malodorous spray.
Make sure to toss out any malodorous items that might be causing the bad smell.
Feeble steps were heard on the stairs, and an old man, tall and frail, odorous of pipe smoke, with shaggy, unkept gray hair and a dingy beard, tobacco stained about the mouth, entered uncertainly.
By all accounts he'd done so as quickly as possible, and left the small, malodorous room with some haste. NIGHT SISTERS
Recurrence of this benign but often malodorous condition is prevented by skin care with emollients.
The author, Jeff Eisenberg, is the CEO of Pest Away Inc., a New York City–based company that is championing the fight against the wingless, odorous, red-bodied, bloodsucking Cimex lectularius.
There were pins and needles, yarn and thread, that have taken the place of the wilder thorn and fibre; all kinds of small hardware; looking-glasses in lacquered frames; beads of sorts, cowries and reels of cotton; pots of odorous pomatum and shea-butter nuts; feathers of the plantain-bird and country snuff-boxes of a chestnut-like fruit (a strychnine?) from which the powder is inhaled, _more majorum_, through a quill; physic-nuts (_tiglium_, or croton), a favourite but painful native remedy; horns of the goat and antelope, possibly intended for fetish 'medicine;' blue-stone, colcothar and other drugs. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
EPA's North East manager Ann Telford said the large stockpiles of odorous waste material had been identified as paunch - the contents of an animal's stomach, and sludge generated from the rendering process. The Border Mail - Front Page
Jurgen now looked more attentively at this queer creature: and he saw that the tumblebug was malodorous, certainly, but at bottom honest and well-meaning; and this seemed to Jurgen the saddest thing he had found among the Philistines. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
Levitt determined definitively the most malodorous component of the human flatus: hydrogen sulfide.
the odorous air of the orchard
According to the manufacturer, newater is clearer, less odorous and less bacterial than the water people get from the Public Utilities Board.
That the internal membrane of the nostrils may be kept always moist, for the better perception of odours, there are two canals, that conduct the tears after they have done their office in moistening and cleaning the ball of the eye into a sack, which is called the lacrymal sack; and from which there is a duct, that opens into the nostrils: the aperture of this duct is formed of exquisite sensibility, and when it is stimulated by odorous particles, or by the dryness or coldness of the air, the sack contracts itself, and pours more of its contained moisture on the organ of smell. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
Some of the malodorous wounds seen at the end of life include bedsores and fungating breast cancer lesions.
The place was full of hacks - God, what an ill-dressed, malodorous bunch.
The gentle boy who, with innocent reverence, makes his visit of courtesy to the foreign teacher, bringing for gift a cluster of iris-flowers or odorous spray of plum-blossoms, -- the boy who does whatever he is told, and charms by an earnestness, a trustfulness, a grace of manner rarely met with among Western lads of the same age, -- is destined to undergo the strangest of transformations long before becoming a baccalaureus. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation
fresh odorous bread
He crouched with his arms around the pan, breathing heavily, sweating malodorously and watching the world Quite Ugly One Morning
Days of delicious dreaming were these, -- days of roaming on the emerald green turf under the stately and odorous pines, listening to the dash of the waterfalls, or watching the crimson sunset burning redly through the darkness of the branches, -- and in the moonlit evenings sitting under the trees to hear the entrancing music of a Hungarian string-band, which played divine and voluptuous melodies of the land, -- "lieder" and Thelma
Here it is… equally malodorous, mendacious, but it's up there on the Web for all to see, truth is stranger than fiction.
Leisure, saunterings through the great balmy pine forest, luxurious explorations of shadowy glens and valleys, full of exquisite varieties of wild flowers; the warm, dry, delicious climate which invited him to take his dolce far niente under the boughs of murmuring trees, outstretched upon a couch of brown pineneedles, as elastic as it was odorous, all promised to bring back his poetical enthusiasm, and to set in genial motion the half frozen springs of his invention and fancy. The Poems of Henry Timrod.
Abimelech is a name malodorous in Bible history, and yet full of profitable suggestion. New Tabernacle Sermons

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