foul-smelling
Example Sentences
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In oxygen-poor settings such as marine sediments, wetlands, and underground aquifers, certain microbes produce hydrogen sulfide, a foul-smelling and highly toxic gas.
From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2025
Before the diagnosis, Ms Masasa experienced cramping in her lower abdomen, bleeding and a foul-smelling vaginal discharge that just wouldn’t go away.
From BBC • Oct. 7, 2024
On presentation to the emergency department, according to the time line in the article, she exhibited low blood pressure, a tender abdomen, and foul-smelling discharge during a pelvic exam—all evidence of abdominal infection.
From Slate • Sep. 18, 2024
Authorities took the virtually unprecedented step of deploying “skunk water” — a foul-smelling liquid sometimes sprayed at Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank — against some of the Israeli demonstrators.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2023
If he examined the empty setting on an old brooch, he’d see what happened to the missing gem: a miserly master, a midnight theft, a pawnbroker, ailing children, and draughts of foul-smelling medicine.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
