fetor

Example Sentences

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By midmorning, when Morse helped load them into a wooden crate inside a light twin-engine propeller Beechcraft Baron, they were burnished with a sheen of oil and emitted a stomach-turning fetor.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2019

What was most unusual for a dream was that my nose was active, wrinkling in disgust at the fetor of rotten grass and the ichor of freshly overturned earth.

From Time Magazine Archive

The aroma that fills, as it were, the nostrils of my memory is the sulfurous, protein-dissolving fetor of Nair.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

But anyway, it's called fetor hepaticus, and it's a symptom of late-stage liver failure.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

As the discharge is usually very offensive, the following solution will correct its fetor, and should be injected or poured in the ear.

From The Dog by Youatt, William