How to Use fetid in a Sentence

fetid

adjective

• Both are the site of catch basins that are fetid pools of muck.
  — Robin Abcarian, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• That stench of old seafood or the fetid smell of rotting meat are foul, to be sure.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2022
• That fishy stench of old seafood or the fetid smell of rotting meat are foul smells, to be sure.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2021
• This is where the whey drains from the curd — a place as humid as the Amazon and fetid as, well, old milk.
  — New York Times, 3 Jan. 2018
• On the Rakuyo Maru, 1,318 prisoners were jammed in the fetid cargo hold.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 14 Sep. 2019
• He's stuffed tight with delusions of grandeur and fetid grievances.
  — Ron Charles, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2019
• Wait too long and what was once verdant and fragrant emerges black, slimy and fetid.
  — Ellen Kanner, charlotteobserver, 23 May 2017
• Parrish isn't the only town on the waste route that has been dealing with the fetid fallout.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 3 Apr. 2018
• Piles of garbage grow larger and more fetid by the day, rotting in the tropical sun.
  — Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
• There, it’s tilted and opened on the side to let the fetid mush slide onto the pile, releasing its bouquet.
  — Curbed, 12 Aug. 2022
• An extra T-shirt to pop on after popping off a Citi Bike in the fetid summer heat.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 18 July 2017
• Rank and fetid smells gave way to a world that valued pleasant and deodorized smells.
  — Mark M. Smith, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2020
• Over the course of several months, the unattended pool had turned into a fetid swamp, thick with weeds and muck.
  — Dwight Garner, Esquire, 21 July 2017
• Shabir held his documents tight and waded into the fetid water at the bottom of the ditch.
  — Mirzahussain Sadid, ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2022
• The project will overlook a slightly fetid lake that’s ringed by concrete apartment blocks, slum tents and open-air tea stalls.
  — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2017
• Walsh launched his fetid career in the same manner as many of the worst of the right-wing swamp: conservative talk radio.
  — Indigo Olivier, The New Republic, 27 Dec. 2022
• The swamp has never been more foul or more fetid than under this president.
  — Fox News, 23 May 2018
• In fact, the smell produced by a stinkbug is dusty, fetid, lingering, and analogy-proof.
  — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2011
• Bodies began to pile up beyond the capacity of the dark and fetid morgues.
  — Mattathias Schwartz, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Dec. 2017
• The floodwaters stayed long enough to become fetid, the houses full of rotting debris and mold.
  — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 July 2021
• Hoo boy, Craven and company stumbled across a deep, fetid swamp of teenage terrors.
  — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 3 July 2022
• The Elizabeth might yet return to her former fetid glory—if all her species can get a chance to heal.
  — Carrie Arnold, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2021
• The fetid water smells like rotten eggs and has brought with it tadpoles, minnows and algae.
  — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2019
• While the families they were obligated to serve watched that fetid pile of waste grow each day.
  — Erich Mische, Twin Cities, 9 Apr. 2017
• Thousands of those who could afford to escape the fetid city fled to rustic retreats like the marshy Rockaways.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022
• When the blast went off, bodies were scattered into fetid drainage canals, the survivors left to escape in a daze of horror.
  — Kevin Liptak, CNN, 28 Aug. 2021
• Donald Trump promised to drain the swamp, and here’s a seven-month progress report: The Washington bog is still as wide and fetid as ever.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2017
• Standing outside her shack, Franco looks down at what remains of the pond, brown and fetid, more mud than water.
  — John Muyskens, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
• On garbage days in Manhattan, towers of fetid trash bags line the streets, with food and liquids oozing on to sidewalks.
  — Emma G. Fitzsimmons, New York Times, 3 May 2023
• The flowers, a brownish-purple don’t smell great, so the trees are pollinated by flies and beetles — anything attracted to the fetid stench.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Oct 2024