How to Use miasma in a Sentence

miasma

noun

• The city stewed for days in a miasma of anger and fear.
  — The Economist, 9 Jan. 2020
• But the canals, what’s left of them, now are lined with trash and exude a miasma tinged with the scent of sewage.
  — Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 17 June 2018
• Gomez spent a few weeks in a miasma of panic, then got to work.
  — Jia Tolentino, Vogue, 9 Mar. 2021
• The coronavirus acts like a miasma and a germ, all at once.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2020
• But in other ways, she is still trapped in the miasma of despair.
  — Amy Qin, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• All those tiny pieces of ash combining to shroud Lake Tahoe, a gray miasma that warns of the megafire just eight miles from the shore.
  — New York Times, 1 Sep. 2021
• Amid a miasma of exhaust, Smalls lit a firepit on cold nights, played music, served food and made s’mores.
  — Greg Jaffe, Washington Post, 12 June 2022
• The red miasma swam before her eyes, her stomach churned in IT’s rhythm.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
• An acrid miasma emanates from the pan in which the detritus sits.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 24 May 2018
• With his wife pregnant and the neighbors restive, a miasma of anxious questions arise about the fate of Taroon and the people who help him.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023
• The fear of contagion — the viral spread of suicide through social groups — hung over the school like a miasma.
  — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• But the fire turned her landscape from muse into miasma.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
• But after the funerals end and the crowds go away, pain settles like miasma.
  — Elizabeth Williamson, The Atlantic, 2 June 2022
• There is a vacuum—a miasma of confusion and chaos—at the top of the civilian command.
  — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 16 Aug. 2017
• The problem was not miasma but the lack of basic cleanliness.
  — John J. Ross, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
• One result is a miasma of distrust of all public speech.
  — George Will, National Review, 20 Sep. 2017
• Enlarge / Not pictured: the things that are far more dangerous to fortress-dwelling dwarves, like poor site planning, miasma, and a lack of drink.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 5 Dec. 2022
• The Pinheiros River that runs through the heart of Sao Paulo makes its pollution known with a miasma that wafts across city streets, choking rich and poor alike.
  — Star Tribune, 23 Oct. 2020
• According to the miasma theory, scents were a matter of life and death.
  — Katy Kelleher, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• On a hillside above the Russian River, a broad and menacing band of fire is turning a blue sky into a gray miasma of soot.
  — Thomas Fuller, Denise Grady and Richard PÉrez-PeÑa, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
• My assumption had been that words would lead my daughter out of her miasma of depression and anger.
  — Wired, 5 July 2022
• But to get there, a reader has to wade through a miasma of awkward phrasing in this clunky English translation by Daniel Hahn.
  — Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2021
• Haze was even visible as far east as the Hudson Valley, where a dreary miasma hung over the picturesque towns north of the five boroughs.
  — Liam Stack, New York Times, 29 June 2023
• Bannos says there wasn’t a big scandal — even though miasma had been cited as a great need to relocate the bodies.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2021
• The disease that has caused them so much pain has been perpetually on the news and on people’s lips—a miasma of triggers that has kept their grief raw.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2022
• Outside is the new inside, so anything that allows people to avoid the miasma of their homes when relaxing is hot hot hot.
  — Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2020
• At the time people believed in miasma, or the notion that illness spread by noxious vapors.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 24 Dec. 2021
• There is no evident liquid, but there is a clinging residue and a real thick miasma.
  — Maggie Lange, Bon Appetit, 29 Aug. 2017
• News exhaustion is a miasma that has afflicted almost all of us for some time now.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
• Troubles up top Trace the nearly two decades of Raiders miasma to uneven stewardship.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024