make foul

Example Sentences

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"It gives us cover if we want to make foul smells of our own from time to time," Edel said.

From Chicago Tribune • Apr. 10, 2011

So I dance in the moonlight, make foul jokes, or labor to shake the foundations of night with my heaped-up howls of rage.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

We'll make foul weather with despised tears; Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer Corn.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

Pollute, pol-lūt′, v.t. to soil: to defile: to make foul: to taint: to corrupt: to profane: to violate.—adj. defiled.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Speak not of comfort where no comfort is,        Speak not at all: can words make foul things fair?

From Stories from Everybody's Magazine by Various