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How to use foetid in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word foetid? Here are some examples.

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In the wards, children are crowded two and three in a bed in airless rooms, foetid with the smell of kerosene heaters.
She lived and worked night after night in stinking tenements and foetid shelters packed with unwashed humans.
The councillors pointed out everyone knew cholera was due to miasma, the rising of bad smells from the foetid surrounds.
The hotel itself has been transformed by four months of siege into a foetid, chaotic military camp.
Down an alley-way comes the breeze, bringing gusts of foetid cabbagy air from the gratings over college kitchens along with its weight of moist droplets and spray.
Light was blocked out, rubbish and pollution accumulated and the scheme soon descended into a foetid, disease-ridden mass of squalor and degradation.
Yet the fringes of eternity are polluted with nitrates and blooms of foetid algae.
My dad promptly and elegantly coughed up the right dough to gain admittance and the brick-faced little men swore beneath their foetid breath and the turnstile went round.
The release of the movie itself has only encouraged advocates, for the theory has become mankind's last hope that something good might actually emerge, phoenix-like, from the foetid ashes of Batman v Superman.
Examples from Classical Literature
The high society that could welcome its foetid pages was already ripe for the horrors of the Revolution.
The sulphurated hydrogen gas was called hepatic air by former chemists, or foetid air from sulphur, by Mr Scheele.
The symptoms which induce women to seek medical aid are haemorrhage, foetid discharge, and later pain and cachexia.
Also the stench was so dreadful that we must bind linen about our nostrils to strain the foetid air.
Their clothes and their letters reek with the foetid secretion of the musk deer.
If we fail, then death is preferable to life in this foetid pit, chained up and treated like dogs.
A damp, foetid smell, suggestive of the rottenness of decay, assailed my nostrils and made me sneeze.
It is like coming out of a foetid cave into the evening sunshine.
Orifice of coxal gland situated just behind that of the foetid gland.
Perkins, both of whom observed the foetid effluvia and regarded them as being emitted from the premises in the occupation of Krook, the unfortunate deceased.
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