make foul

Example Sentences

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"It gives us cover if we want to make foul smells of our own from time to time," Edel said.

From Chicago Tribune • Apr. 10, 2011

So I dance in the moonlight, make foul jokes, or labor to shake the foundations of night with my heaped-up howls of rage.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Will it make foul fair and clean still cleaner?

From Crowded Out! and Other Sketches by Harrison, S. Frances (Susie Frances)

Pollute, pol-lūt′, v.t. to soil: to defile: to make foul: to taint: to corrupt: to profane: to violate.—adj. defiled.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

We'll make foul weather with despised tears; Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer corn And make a dearth in this revolting land.

From King Richard II by Shakespeare, William