fetor

Example Sentences

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By midmorning, when Morse helped load them into a wooden crate inside a light twin-engine propeller Beechcraft Baron, they were burnished with a sheen of oil and emitted a stomach-turning fetor.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2019

What was most unusual for a dream was that my nose was active, wrinkling in disgust at the fetor of rotten grass and the ichor of freshly overturned earth.

From Time Magazine Archive

But anyway, it's called fetor hepaticus, and it's a symptom of late-stage liver failure.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

The aroma that fills, as it were, the nostrils of my memory is the sulfurous, protein-dissolving fetor of Nair.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

On either side of the passage there came muffled sounds from houses; out of open alleys leading into interior courts stole the fetor of death that even the spice of burning unguents could not smother.

From The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem by Leyendecker, Frank X.