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
I had not lain long before I was driven, by an exceedingly offensive smell, to search for a cleaner neighborhood; but I found all the cots, fore and aft, were either occupied or engaged.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various
The cabbage decays with a strong, offensive smell when its tissues finally break down after repeated changes of temperature and moisture.
From Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them by Anonymous
To this perhaps the offensive smell referred to may be chiefly attributed.
From Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology by Hammond, William Alexander
The night was clear and cold, the stars gleaming in distant purity, but all around, the offensive smell of the disheveled city played on my disgusted nostrils.
From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward
