miasma

Example Sentences

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Few writers since Henry James can create an atmosphere of doubt around events and character as effectively as this author does, and in “Venetian Vespers” the miasma thickens at every turn.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Above all, we experience a pervasive miasma of helplessness as we are forced to watch this intolerable train wreck.

From Salon • Sep. 20, 2025

It was a couple of weeks after the great smog had brought London to a standstill, and although that particularly foul miasma had dispersed, smog still regularly reduced visibility.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2024

They were interning at a local dance studio, teaching yoga to kids and unsteadily emerging from a miasma of childhood depression.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2024

The reek was so great that the other servants slept on the floor in the house rather than endure the miasma near their pallets.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson