miasma

As I emerged from my children’s earliest years—a miasma of Duplo blocks, nursing pads and sleepless nights—I felt utterly depleted, not just in a physical sense but in a creative one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

Above all, we experience a pervasive miasma of helplessness as we are forced to watch this intolerable train wreck.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2025

They were interning at a local dance studio, teaching yoga to kids and unsteadily emerging from a miasma of childhood depression.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

Another took footage inside, a miasma of smoke quickly obscuring the camera lens as passengers shouted and cabin crew tried to direct their next moves.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2024

“Doc says it’s something in the air that spreads ague—something off bad water and garbage. A miasma, he called it.”

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

So when an epidemic gets underway, we don’t waste time on sacrifices to propitiate angry gods or fretting about deadly miasmas seeping in with the night air.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2020

Modern warfare creates miasmas of emotion, information, misinformation, deception and secrecy.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 8, 2018

Indeed, for a while the two theories coexisted quite happily, for it was initially thought that bacteria flourished only in decaying and putrefying substances — the very things that produced miasmas.

From Salon ● May 21, 2012

Soon germs became even more frightening than miasmas.

From Salon ● May 21, 2012

Yet the horror and reek of those two days in the miasmas still clung in his memory, even in his nostrils, he sometimes imagined.

From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Harry Hervey

Ancient philosophers seem to have believed, that the contagious miasmata in their warm climates affected horses and dogs previous to mankind.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

Mange exerts a morbid constitutional action on the skin; it is infectious from various miasmata, and it is contagious from personal communication.

From The Dog by William Youatt

But the worst was past, and the fever had spent itself before the dawn of another day; even the terrible marsh miasmata had been repelled by the strength and resiliency of Harry’s constitution.

From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Gordon Stables

Localities of every sort, high and low, dry and moist, those saturated with marsh miasmata and those fanned by pure mountain-breezes, have been alike visited by this disease.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Much of that region is heavily timbered, and, upon cutting it away in spots, and letting in the rays of the sun upon vegetable matter undergoing decomposition, miasmata are generated.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck