noisome

Example Sentences

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From a commercial standpoint, the companies have been reluctant to get in the way of the torrent, unless it’s so noisome that it crosses an inescapable line.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2022

Yet another in our series of noisome parasites that we offer as second prizes.

From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2022

History is, for better and worse, an argument, a controversy, a noisy and even noisome wrangle over meanings and values.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2020

Media scholar Tim Wu plunges into the noisome history of “attention harvesting” — the commodification of human attention by industry and government.

From Nature • Oct. 11, 2016

For cold they seemed to Sam after the noisome darkness behind; but the breath of them revived him.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien