offensive smell
Example Sentences
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“Along with an offensive smell, that laceration may be accompanied by bleeding from the mouth, signs of pain, excessive drooling or pawing at the side of the face,” Dr. de Jong says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2018
Some difficulty was experienced in heating the room in which the figures of the man and two boys had appeared, as the stove not only smoked, but emitted an offensive smell.
From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist
Any pronounced taste in the water renders it suspicious; an offensive smell points to organic contamination; turbidity indicates presence of suspended impurities, which may be either mineral or organic.
From The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) by Winslow, Kenelm
Symptoms.—At first there is simply an increased moisture in the cleft of the frog, accompanied with an offensive smell.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
The caterpillars of the Swallow-tailed moths, when irritated, give out an offensive smell, but they are unable to 'spray.'
From Chatterbox, 1905. by Various
