smelly

Example Sentences

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Trees have less dramatic ways to screw up your day: Their roots can infiltrate cracks in septic or sewage pipes, blocking the system and wreaking expensive, smelly havoc.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

Gas generators, the traditional option, are noisy, high maintenance and smelly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026

Pub owner Vicky Morgans from Swansea recalled the "smelly clothes and stained ceilings" before she introduced the ban a month earlier at West Cross Inn.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2025

Many of the wells that the air district had ordered installed have not been drilled deep enough to capture smelly landfill gases, due to safety concerns.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2024

“You said we had to wear these scratchy smelly putrid things for the rest of the week.”

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech