How to Use noxious in a Sentence

noxious

adjective

• 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
• And the state of New York can't prohibit noxious speech because of it as well.
  — Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 12 Dec. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• William waited in the Negro car, closest to the engine, with its flying sparks and noxious fumes.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
• Some even consume noxious fare that few other species would dare eat.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024
• The noxious effects can reach entire swaths of the continent.
  — Jamie Dickman, Popular Science, 14 June 2023
• Some residents have not had their trash picked up in over a week, leading them to report noxious smells and rats in their streets.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
• Two new studies out this year have heightened health worries about noxious fumes in our kitchens.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2022
• They're even classified as a noxious weed in Connecticut, where sales of this species are banned.
  — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 May 2023
• Cured-in-place pipe repair projects are everywhere in the United States, but noxious fumes from the project can pose health hazards.
  — USA Today, 30 Mar. 2023
• The Bonhomme Richard burned more than four days blanketing the neighborhoods nearest the base in noxious black smoke.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2022
• Sometimes called dip or punch bait, the noxious concoction can be found as nuggets but usually is in a paste form.
  — Pete M. Anderson, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
• Twitter is a noxious toxic playing field, and NPR is better than that.
  — Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
• The first two deputies to enter the house -- wearing surgical masks -- smelled a noxious, pungent odor inside.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2022
• As wildfires have torn through Canada, much of North America has choked under a cloud of noxious air.
  — Omar Mouallem, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2023
• Flames rose onto her second-story wooden balcony, and noxious smoke met her at the front door.
  — Alan Judd, ajc, 13 June 2022
• Second, the engine will be loud and emit noxious exhaust fumes into your cabin.
  — Katherine Keeler, Car and Driver, 30 July 2023
• This allowed lawmakers to seal their windows against the noxious air pollution outside and the stinks wafting up from the Thames.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2023
• But the quantity of steam being ejected was too prodigious to be dispersed; the noxious taste of it invaded our space.
  — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• Many residents who lived near the spill were sickened by noxious odors, court documents said.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2022
• The bodies of the three victims and their dog were pulled from an underground tank filled with noxious sewer gas, located in a cornfield near the town of Elgin, Texas.
  — Nikki Dobrin, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2023
• At the time people believed in miasma, or the notion that illness spread by noxious vapors.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 24 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024