How to Use fetid in a Sentence

fetid

adjective
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  • 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
  • Some of the toilets are out of order, so the patients urinate and defecate in black buckets next to their beds, the fetid smell wafting through the hallways.
    — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018

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