How to Use noxious in a Sentence

noxious

adjective
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  • Patrons know to walk far around them to avoid the noxious fumes.
    — Arkansas Online, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Or to come close to so many rattlesnakes and noxious plants?
    — Outside Online, 13 June 2022
  • What noxious weeds are present in the Kansas City area?
    — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 9 May 2024
  • The Romans thought the fevers people caught there were caused by noxious fumes.
    — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Other noxious invaders are poised to make the same trip.
    — jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • And the state of New York can't prohibit noxious speech because of it as well.
    — Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 12 Dec. 2022
  • While some fled, others just sat on the ground, covered their faces and waited in the noxious fumes.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Steam vents hissed clouds of noxious gases into the bright blue sky.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2022
  • No skunk weed — that foul, noxious pot that pervades Gotham’s air.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Nov. 2022
  • That left her with two options: a home in a noxious apartment there or no home at all.
    — Alan Judd, ajc, 19 June 2022
  • But people were warned to stay away because of the risk from noxious fumes and hot magma.
    — Morgan Coates, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2022
  • What to protect and how A noxious weed threatens the CT River.
    — Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024
  • The mock smoke bomb fizzled to the floor, releasing noxious smoke, and a woman screamed.
    — Les Payne, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2020
  • But what if the bad weather was a cloud of noxious fumes caused by giant bushfires?
    — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Gun sites went silent as flocks of noxious drones moaned and blustered, dove, exploded, and wrecked the city anew.
    — Jamie Holmes, Wired, 4 Aug. 2020
  • This lets most of the noxious sulfuric compounds, which are found in the root, escape.
    — Minda Daughtry, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Idling trucks and freeway traffic kick up noxious fumes and dust.
    — Kat Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2023
  • The trick was to drop the bomb into the hole and then cover the opening with dirt so the noxious fumes would asphyxiate the groundhog.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
  • On a summer day in Minnesota, because the air was noxious to breathe.
    — Sarah Barker, Outside Online, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Goats are happy to eat any noxious weed but also chew on wiring and climb on equipment.
    — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Biting insects are noxious for you and your pets, not to mention a threat to your canine's health.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Hype around Young is already growing at a noxious rate.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 5 Feb. 2020
  • William waited in the Negro car, closest to the engine, with its flying sparks and noxious fumes.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Find a predator that’s a match for the powerful noxious weeds — one from the Eurasian steppes that tumbleweeds hail from.
    — Dakota Kim, Sunset Magazine, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Some even consume noxious fare that few other species would dare eat.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Why it is now called a 'noxious plant' Stinknet plants can grow up to 2 feet high and tend to fill in open spaces between native plants.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, azcentral, 26 Mar. 2020
  • The noxious effects can reach entire swaths of the continent.
    — Jamie Dickman, Popular Science, 14 June 2023
  • For the Waterfords, progress comes in the form of the Putnams—the high-ranking Gileadean Commander and his noxious wife.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • Produced entirely by Pharrell, the new album is full of the noxious synths and quaking 808s of the Clipse’s classic work.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Then there was the enormous and noxious meat-packing complex a few miles downriver, not to mention tens of thousands of houses and shops heated with coal.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 4 Aug. 2024

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