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adjective

noisome

causing or able to cause nausea

In a sentence

Six example sentences with noisome, each labelled with its topic.

  • A forgotten pot of fish stock turned noisome overnight, and we opened every window before anyone could eat breakfast.

    Cooking

  • The landfill's noisome plume drifted over three streets each August until engineers capped the cells with clay.

    Environment

  • Our cheap room sat above a fish market, and the noisome air at dawn drove us onto the balcony.

    Travel

  • Medieval chroniclers complained of the noisome river, where tanners and butchers dumped their waste upstream of the city.

    History

  • The experiment released a noisome gas, and the students learned to run it only under the fume hood.

    Science

  • Victorian planners put the sewage works downwind of the new suburb, so its noisome air drifted over the fields instead.

    Architecture

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