odorous
Example Sentences
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One of his recurring subjects was meat, from flayed rabbits to rayfish, with odorous side effects.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Politicians helping their weakest opponent — while odorous — makes strategic sense in California.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2024
The incandescent bulb’s bright light replaced the dim and often odorous illumination of oil and gas lamps that brought the risk of fire and, in the case of gas, of suffocation and explosions.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Still, the stockings were certainly odorous enough to entice mosquitoes.
From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2022
He stood aside and she peered down into the obscurity odorous of dank earth and mold and rubber.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
