effluvia

Example Sentences

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One turbine spins in the fiery effluvia of engine exhaust, with temperatures around 1,000 degrees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Many Wallingford houses were built to avoid the hellish view of tower effluvia.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2023

Today's equivalent might be a sewer worker - but rather than scrabbling through effluvia for scrap metal they go underground for maintenance, such as the grim job of clearing fatbergs.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2021

Shuttered mining operations let metal-laden effluvia seep into the waterways.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2017

It is somewhat singular, but suppuration of the brain is more offensive than the foulest ulcer, and it is with great difficulty that the pestilential effluvia can be tolerated.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)