MIASMA in a Sentence

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For MIASMA, below is one of 9 sentences:
It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, rendered the century healthy, crowned the populace.

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 Meanings and Examples of MIASMA
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miasma
 n.  swamp gas; heavy, vaporous atmosphere, often emanating from decaying matter; pervasive corrupting influence
Classic Sentence:
1  It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, rendered the century healthy, crowned the populace.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
2  All sorts of phantoms haunt these long, solitary corridors; everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing-holes, where Villon within converses with Rabelais without.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
3  The intermittent gleams from the air-holes only appeared at very long intervals, and were so wan that the full sunlight seemed like the light of the moon; all the rest was mist, miasma, opaqueness, blackness.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS
4  There was an earthy smell, as of some dry miasma, which came through the fouler air.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  Add suffocation by miasmas, burial by slides, and sudden crumbling of the earth.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS
6  After the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and traps; after chaos, the sewer.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES
7  The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ...
Example Sentence:
1  The smog hung over Victorian London like a dark cloud; noisome, reeking of decay, it was a visible miasma.
2  A miasma of pollution hung in the air above Mexico City.