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

"Yes," said Catharine de M�dicis, "I have been burning several old parchments which gave out such an offensive smell that I put some juniper into the brazier, hence this odor."

From Marguerite de Valois by Dumas père, Alexandre

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

There are no royal means of dispersing scrofulous glands, or of curing discharges from the ear, or of doing away with the offensive smell which in some cases proceeds from the nostrils.

From The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by West, Charles

The whole plumage was deep black-brown, the head covered with short downy feathers, and the bird had no offensive smell like the common vultures.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.