offensive smell
Example Sentences
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“Along with an offensive smell, that laceration may be accompanied by bleeding from the mouth, signs of pain, excessive drooling or pawing at the side of the face,” Dr. de Jong says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2018
Any pronounced taste in the water renders it suspicious; an offensive smell points to organic contamination; turbidity indicates presence of suspended impurities, which may be either mineral or organic.
From The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) by Winslow, Kenelm
Crude bone oil has a most offensive smell.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
By continuing upon the surface of the water, it became white, and its offensive smell went off in a few days.
From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Priestley, Joseph
It ended in a little spring, hidden under brambles, which seemed to emit an offensive smell.
From The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice
