fetid
Example Sentences
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A fetid stench remained in the neighborhood, and several residents reported feeling nausea and itchy throats and eyes weeks after the fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Then he got in another brawl, was imprisoned in Fort St. Angelo, escaped, and was formally expelled by the Order—the recorded language is “like a rotten and fetid limb.”
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2026
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
Pawpaws' maroon flowers and fetid odor suggest that flies and beetles are the plant's primary pollinators.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2024
They hung stale in the fetid air, choking her, making her head pound each time they echoed in her mind.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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