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
A strong-smelling gas, formaldehyde is used in making building materials and plastics and often as a component of disinfectants and preservatives.
From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2022
Magical handbooks from the time show that Greco-Egyptian magicians used fragrance extensively in their rituals, even scented inks, and doctors believed strong-smelling plant species to be more medically effective than others.
From Salon • Oct. 30, 2021
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
