fetid

Example Sentences

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Mystified, he wanders the dank halls of their rented palazzo and the fetid alleyways of the “pestilential city” where canal waters slither past like “a fat, grey-green worm.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

By the end of the movie Swayze’s "cooler" has stopped a JCPenney department store from ruining the town’s all-American tanginess, or whatever, and heads off to spruce up some other fetid swill hole.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2024

It is all too easy to find yourself submerged in fetid water, or sucked into a slurry of thick, black mud.

From National Geographic • Feb. 16, 2024

In the Ukrainian-held city of Kherson on the west bank, rescuers completely evacuated a neighborhood submerged in fetid floodwaters, venturing out in boats to pull people from roofs and the upper floors of homes.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2023

The smells of grass and snow cut through the fetid breath of the tunnel.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir