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
Delight is naturally formed by the participle de and light, to make light, in the same way as "debase," to make base, "defile," to make foul.
From Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850 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
Crumbs they leave me that my life may not altogether go from me, but these crumbs they make foul to my taste and my smell.”
From The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Colum, Padraic
