fetid

Example Sentences

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On the way to a fancy ball, his gallant attempt to guide his date past a fetid puddle ends with him splashing her “from head to foot with that filthy water.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Human waste spilled out of the overflowing communal latrines near Nyariaka’s house and into the fetid water filling the culverts.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2025

It is all too easy to find yourself submerged in fetid water, or sucked into a slurry of thick, black mud.

From National Geographic • Feb. 16, 2024

People buy dwindling jugs from municipal sanitation stations, scour for bottles in supermarkets or drink whatever fetid liquid may dribble out of their pipes.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2023

But Emma could neither speak nor stand, and we were alone in the underground station but for two women in raincoats who were backing away, holding their noses against the hollow’s fetid stench.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs