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
In the new world, now free of liturgy and magic, “the balsamic effluvia of springtime meadows,” writes Corbin, “became an obsession.”
From New York Times • May 10, 2021
The Times leader writer, Oliver Kamm, author of Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English, says that the swearing lexicon now draws less from religion and more from body effluvia.
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2017
Several physicians and medical students have died too, but the majority of these live with the narrowest economy, and in the parts of the city the most liable to impure effluvia.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker
