MALODOROUS in a Sentence

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Example sentences for MALODOROUS, such as:

1. The compost heap was most malodorous in summer.
2. He saw the squalid tract of her vice, miserable and malodorous.
3. He embraced his daughter, and then again Pierre, and kissed him with his malodorous mouth.
4. But his eyes were pink and unlovely in the flare of the match with which he lighted his dead and malodorous cigar.
5. Humans simply weren't meant to be rattling through the air in a malodorous tin can, five miles above the safety of solid ground.

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 Meanings and Examples of MALODOROUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
malodorous
 a.  foul-smelling; having bad or offensive odor
Classic Sentence:
1  We were prepared for some unpleasantness, for as we were opening the door a faint, malodorous air seemed to exhale through the gaps, but none of us ever expected such an odour as we encountered.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
2  He saw the squalid tract of her vice, miserable and malodorous.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
3  But his eyes were pink and unlovely in the flare of the match with which he lighted his dead and malodorous cigar.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  Holmes had been seated for some hours in silence with his long, thin back curved over a chemical vessel in which he was brewing a particularly malodorous product.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
5  He embraced his daughter, and then again Pierre, and kissed him with his malodorous mouth.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II
Example Sentence:
1  The compost heap was most malodorous in summer.
2  Humans simply weren't meant to be rattling through the air in a malodorous tin can, five miles above the safety of solid ground.