How to Use odorous in a Sentence

odorous

adjective

• 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
• The number and type of microbes in your gut may affect gas symptoms, including how odorous your farts are.
  — Karen Pallarito, Health, 4 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Unlike sights and sounds, smells are complex, made up of hundreds of different odorous molecules.
  — April Reese, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2014
• 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

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024