musky
Example Sentences
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The goat was "nasty and mean", smelled "disgusting, musky, rancid", and would chase her young children, knocking them down.
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2024
What outrageous crimes did the goat, whom she described as “disgusting, musky, rancid,” commit other than needing a bath?
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2024
After the last embers of a campfire dim, the musky smell of smoke remains.
From Science Daily • Jan. 2, 2024
“It’s a very distinctive smell, castoreum … it’s kind of musky, but sweet,” says Campbell-Palmer.
From National Geographic • Nov. 15, 2023
She handed me a bowl into which the pig’s guts spilled like syrup, quivering pink, blue, and yellow, warm and musky, alive, hard to imagine as solid, piquant, brown sausages.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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The Nose Knows: Olfactory Vocabulary
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