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

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

This oil contains odorous compounds— in the case of the dark-eyed junco, it smells like leaf litter and soil.

From Scientific American • Mar. 24, 2022

A chemical leak at an industrial facility in Atwater Village on Thursday prompted a hazardous material response and sent a massive cloud of odorous smoke into the air over Northeast L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2022

Swinging their grocery bags full of clean watery green onions and odorous liver-wurst and red catsup and white bread, they would dare each other on past the limits set by their stern mothers.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury