fetid

Example Sentences

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Human waste spilled out of the overflowing communal latrines near Nyariaka’s house and into the fetid water filling the culverts.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2025

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

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

The park is also building a larger sun canopy for the giraffe and dredging out garbage and fetid water from a pool that takes up much of the enclosure.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 13, 2023

Children sailed boats down the fetid gutters and flew kites between the beer hall signs.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer