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Example sentences for "disagreeable odor"

  • At any time the herb gives forth a disagreeable odor, but especially when its leaves and stem have been crushed until they emit a resinous secretion once an alleged cure for the plague.

  • As one might suspect from the rather disagreeable odor of these blossoms, they are most attractive to flies and beetles, which, carrying pollen from older flowers, leave some on the stigmas that are already mature in newly-opened ones.

  • There is little use trying to coax this shyest of sylvan flowers into our gardens where other members of its family, rhododendrons, laurels, and azaleas make themselves delightfully at home.

  • Flowering Season - May-August Distribution - Maryland and Minnesota northward to circumpolar regions.

  • By their subsequent decomposition they would also give the oil a disagreeable odor.

  • The oil at the same time acquires a disagreeable odor, resembling that of oil of turpentine, and is finally converted into a resinous mass.

  • Elizabeth had an especially finely developed sense of smell and nothing was more repugnant to her than a disagreeable odor.

  • The next day the cold fat was again boiled in a new vessel, with sweet-scented wine, this operation being repeated until the fat had lost every trace of disagreeable odor, when it was brought in contact with the perfumes.

  • Ailantus glandulosus) having long, handsome pinnate leaves, and greenish flowers of a disagreeable odor.

  • Defn: To cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink.

  • It has a disagreeable odor, and is spontaneously inflammable in the air.

  • To cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disagreeable odor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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