fetid

Example Sentences

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On the way to a fancy ball, his gallant attempt to guide his date past a fetid puddle ends with him splashing her “from head to foot with that filthy water.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

By the end of the movie Swayze’s "cooler" has stopped a JCPenney department store from ruining the town’s all-American tanginess, or whatever, and heads off to spruce up some other fetid swill hole.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2024

It is all too easy to find yourself submerged in fetid water, or sucked into a slurry of thick, black mud.

From National Geographic • Feb. 16, 2024

People buy dwindling jugs from municipal sanitation stations, scour for bottles in supermarkets or drink whatever fetid liquid may dribble out of their pipes.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2023

Stendahl drank it in, the dreariness, the oppression, the fetid vapors, the whole “atmosphere,” so delicately contrived and fitted.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury