effluvia
Example Sentences
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One turbine spins in the fiery effluvia of engine exhaust, with temperatures around 1,000 degrees.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
Many Wallingford houses were built to avoid the hellish view of tower effluvia.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2023
Today's equivalent might be a sewer worker - but rather than scrabbling through effluvia for scrap metal they go underground for maintenance, such as the grim job of clearing fatbergs.
From BBC • Dec. 30, 2021
In the new world, now free of liturgy and magic, “the balsamic effluvia of springtime meadows,” writes Corbin, “became an obsession.”
From New York Times • May 10, 2021
The unfortunate man only survived the event four days, when mortification of the burnt parts was most extensive, and the body emitted intolerable putrid effluvia.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
