odor
Example Sentences
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The vehicles were responding to an aborted United Airlines flight that reported a strange odor on the plane.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Someone had noticed a foul odor coming from the vehicle and detectives arrived at the tow yard to investigate.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
Around sunset on Sept. 22, six days after Cynthia was last seen, a rural landowner was walking her dog on a private dirt road 40 miles south of Arlington when she noticed a foul odor.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
Media reports said investigators were probing whether airport traffic controllers were distracted by a separate odor issue on a United Airlines flight -- the emergency to which the fire truck was responding.
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
On the few occasions when he lost a speed game, he’d just push the pieces to the center of the board in disgust, his nostrils flaring as if he smelled a bad odor.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Vocabulary lists containing odor
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4-letter words, List 1
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