How to Use odorous in a Sentence

odorous

adjective
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  • Odorous cheeses need to be tightly wrapped.
  • The brand claims this kills common house ants as well as odorous house and fire ants.
    — Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping, 18 Apr. 2022
  • This is the poetry of a messy and hungry and odorous life.
    — Jeff Gordinier, New York Times, 30 June 2017
  • Asturias makes Spain's favorite blue cheese, the spicy and odorous Cabrales.
    — Ben Waterhouse, OregonLive.com, 7 June 2017
  • Look out for odorous or murky waters to avoid the toxic algae.
    — Catherine Kim, Vox, 14 Aug. 2019
  • And the very wet wipes were unpleasant to touch, leaving an odorous residue on fingers, and a shimmery gloss on our skin.
    — Samson McDougall, Health, 17 July 2023
  • His heinous and odorous excuse for Benghazi and the needless loss of four American lives should be laid at his doorstep.
    — Orange County Register, 4 Jan. 2017
  • Maybe now is not a good time to crank up your riding tractor or spread that odorous cow manure in your garden.
    — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Lou Caputo, a 37-year veteran of the police force, thought up the uniquely odorous concept more than 20 years ago, said the AP.
    — Deirdre Reilly, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Here’s info about odorous house ants and their management from Penn State.
    — oregonlive, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Everyone knew that taking Kemp was going to be the necessary, odorous part of the deal.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 8 June 2019
  • One less common way to counter odorous bacteria is the use of alpha-hydroxy acids.
    — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 21 Apr. 2022
  • This tiny world of sweat, bacteria, and odorous compounds then transfers to our clothing.
    — Alden Wicker, Vox, 15 July 2019
  • This is the first time that it’s been shown in a published study that humans do emit some odorous chemicals during epileptic seizures, ones that dogs can pick up on.
    — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 28 Mar. 2019
  • When other bruins cross the odorous footpath, the sugar-rich, fruity fragrance becomes a breadcrumb trail that leads predators back to the same site.
    — Ben Romans, Outdoor Life, 9 Mar. 2021
  • In that incident, sludge leaked into a pipe carrying odorous air out of one tank and the load flowed into the filter housing.
    — Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Heimerl believes Morrow may have been renting the unit to keep odorous chemicals from his apartment.
    — Marwa Eltagouri, chicagotribune.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Not one, but three corpse flowers are on the verge of blooming in the nation's capital, and excitement is running high for this odorous spectacle.
    — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Not one, but three corpse flowers are on the verge of blooming in the nation's capital, and excitement is running high for this odorous spectacle.
    — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Fumes: Sewage gasses are odorous, unhealthy and potentially flammable.
    — Nerd Wallet, oregonlive, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Fish Emulsion This liquid fertilizer is very fast-acting (and can be quite odorous!).
    — Beth Hanson, Good Housekeeping, 24 Aug. 2015
  • The odorous gas is what gives rotten eggs - and human flatulence - their distinctive and unpleasant smell.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Two key factors helped highlight the Aliso Canyon leak: One, the gas was stored at the end of the supply chain and contained mercaptans, the odorous additives used to make leak detection easier in homes.
    — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2016
  • Two key factors helped highlight the Aliso Canyon leak: One, the gas was stored at the end of the supply chain and contained mercaptans, the odorous additives used to make leak detection easier in homes.
    — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2016
  • The most pervasive of these include pavement ants, Argentine ants, odorous house ants and carpenter ants.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 9 May 2018
  • The crash comes about a year and half after the closure of the Little Miami Incinerator and an odorous fight between city and county officials.
    — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Soaking fish in cool or room temperature rice water for 20 to 30 minutes can remove some of the smell from notably odorous fish like mackerel and sardines.
    — Hollyanna McCollom, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Still, the stockings were certainly odorous enough to entice mosquitoes.
    — Daniel Leonard, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Whereas foods such as chicken, onions, and coffee tend to have odorous gases because of a naturally smelly compound known as sulfur.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2021
  • His invention used a system of pipes attached to a circular mechanism carrying vials of odorous liquid.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 19 May 2023

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