How to Use putrid in a Sentence

putrid

adjective
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  • By day nine, the street outside the Baron had grown putrid.
    — Jane Ferguson, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The smoke plume turned the skies above the town a putrid, pallid orange.
    — Jeffrey Ball, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Even so, the stench wafting out of the bathroom was putrid.
    — Dante Ross, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Two touchdowns against the worse defense in the NFL is putrid.
    — George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Oct. 2017
  • And in the past decade, the talent level has been downright putrid.
    — Peter Dawson, star-telegram, 17 May 2018
  • Liz Lescault serves on a platter a putrid meal of a gun, bullet shells and clay worms.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
  • That helps overcome a putrid first two rounds, when five of the six SEC teams in the field were cut down as favorites.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2022
  • With this putrid article and a basin of once-clear water all the wounds in the ward were washed in turn twice a day.
    — John J. Ross, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
  • But the third down defense is downright putrid, and the pass defense hasn’t been great.
    — oregonlive, 5 Nov. 2021
  • That play and the entirety of the putrid performance by the UO offense in the 44-15 loss are on the minds of some Ducks as No.
    — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The result is a mere three home runs and a putrid .152 average on balls in play.
    — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
  • One fruit, the durian, emits such a putrid smell that it has been banned in some hotels, the display says.
    — Janet Morrissey, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2017
  • Miami owns the worst rushing attack in the NFL at a putrid 73.6 yards per game on the ground.
    — David Furones, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • What lay on the pillow was a charnel-house, a heap of pus and blood, a shovelful of putrid flesh.
    — Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
  • In their first eight games at home, the Brewers have scored 20 runs, a putrid average of 2.5 per game.
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The corpse’s skin had turned from its normal pale color to a putrid orange.
    — Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
  • But the running game (15 carries, 30 yards) was putrid, too.
    — Brian Manzullo, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2017
  • If there’s a mangy cat prowling around or the barbicide looks putrid, get out of there.
    — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 18 July 2018
  • Reports of the putrid smell have been flooding in from residents across the South Bay for weeks.
    — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Maybe the worst thing about the loss was that if the Wild weren’t so putrid for 40 minutes of play, they actually might have won.
    — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Live fish are dead and rotting in their tanks now, their heads rising just above the putrid water.
    — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 23 Apr. 2022
  • The Cavs’ struggles and putrid defense hurt James’s case, but that team would fall apart without him.
    — The Si Staff, SI.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • The lineup is still mostly putrid, and Greene has missed all of June with a stress fracture in his fibula.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
  • In the park, dozens of bodies lay lifeless in the grass; many homeless young people were camped out among mounds of trash and amid a putrid smell.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 27 May 2021
  • The group was putrid in pass blocking, with Simpson getting sacked five times.
    — Matt Stahl | Mstahl@al.com, al, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Some have been amazing, others have been downright putrid, but on the whole, the IPA is now one of my favorite styles.
    — Matt Koesters, Cincinnati.com, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The Cavs—losers of three straight—have been putrid on defense recently, maybe a matchup against the Warriors will wake them up a bit.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 14 Jan. 2018
  • The offense as a whole was putrid, but quarterback Blake Shapen was far from solid in this one.
    — Michael Haag, Dallas News, 12 Nov. 2022
  • And that’s exactly what the Milwaukee Bucks are doing, as new head coach Doc Rivers has simplified and organized a once putrid defensive team.
    — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Even the tree's putrid aroma emitted at full-bloom hasn't kept it from becoming a go-to ornamental option for developers and landscapers for decades.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024

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