foul breath

Example Sentences

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Some of Boochani’s most vivid descriptions concern the smells of the camp: the unrelenting odor of men’s bodies in extreme heat, the inescapable smell of foul breath in close quarters.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 11, 2019

What Giles smelled that July day, while out on a research survey offshore of San Juan Island with the southern residents, was the foul breath of an animal in compromised health.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 2019

Dozens of other men mill around the clinic: a dimly lit, mattress-lined, hangar-like building reeking of sweat and foul breath.

From Economist • Jan. 12, 2017

He goes to the dentist twice a year and always has a clean bill of oral health, but I'm tired of being in bed with his foul breath.

From Slate • Nov. 5, 2013

Bloody Miles’s foul breath fanned over my ear and cheek.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia