strong-smelling
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Its website lists symptoms as feeling thirsty, having dark yellow, strong-smelling urine; urinating less often than usual; feeling dizzy or lightheaded; feeling tired; a dry mouth, lips and tongue.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2025
When polar bears enter these dumps in search of food, they are attracted to strong-smelling substances, some of which are not even edible.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2022
When the plant cells are damaged, most notably by extended cooking, the chemicals interact and start “a chain of reactions that generates bitter, pungent, and strong-smelling compounds.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2022
Epidemics of bubonic plague in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Muchembled writes, ushered in a fashion for the use of strong-smelling ambergris, musk, and civet, as “vital bulwarks against the Devil’s breath.”
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2020
The days were suffocating and repetitive, Mama cooking strong-smelling soups that she ate alone because Master stayed out late and Amala felt nauseated and Ugwu had diarrhea.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
