foetid BrE
fetid AmE

The words hung in the fetid air for a moment.

She took a deep breath of the hot, fetid air.

For two more days the city held us in its fetid grasp.

But the talk outside the meeting room was positively fetid.

The fetid aroma of the air out- side was gone.

He could feel fetid breath on the back of his neck.

It was from here that the fetid odor had come.

The air was fetid and close with the smell of the birth.

A wet and fetid smell came up to meet me.

That fetid animal smell was very strong in here, too.

The basement held half a foot of fetid standing water.

He could feel its hot, fetid breath against his cheeks.

They could endure, just then, no more of the fetid atmosphere inside.

Usually, she said, it was full of leaves and algae, its water a fetid dark brown.

She twisted her head, trying to avoid the fetid breath.

Whether he was now rotting in some dark and fetid cell for what he'd done.

There are men driving themselves at labor in small fetid shops.

We were back in the dinghy, all of us, and the fetid water was gone.

He had to breathe the fetid air, and it made him choke.

It was so fetid I had to compose myself not to react.

Something brushed against his foot, swimming through the fetid water.

The silence spread between us like a little pond of fetid water.

Not a yard from him, a fetid pool began to bubble.

I wrinkled my nose and tried to shut out the fetid air.

George says that he is safer in his fetid cubicle.

I sat with my eyes closed against the foetid turbulence.

It was only then he realised how foetid the atmosphere had become.

He lay cuddling Lin with his back to the foetid wall.

Anything, to get out of the foetid air.

I am sure that nothing less would have got us up from that foetid stupor.

Its foetid jaws snapped shut a hairsbreadth from his face.

The Marquess stopped a moment, wheezing for breath at the foetid air.

He smelled the foetid odor, which cut through his absorption because of its connotations.

In fact, inspected closely, it sustained a population of foetid blackheads.

The wind swept aside the foetid air of the compartment as the door was unbolted.

At last he climbed from the foetid bunk.

A blast of warm foetid air rose up from the precipitous staircase to greet us.

Her hand sweat on the grip of her pistol despite the chill in the foetid air.

Stungebags contributed to the foetid honey smell in the room.

His voice bobbed slowly back to Yagharek on the foetid air.

I could smell the foetid odour offish with every gasp of air.

The basement is flooded to a depth of 1 foot with dank, foetid (but harmless) water.

Memories of the foetid disorder of many an earthly bedroom after a night's use float across your mind.

It means events can happen anywhere, and I can sit on my foetid sofa and watch them at will.

The ship rocked in the wind created by the vast wings and the air stank of their foetid breath.

Only Laura wasn't beside him any more, she'd moved outside again; still uneasy in that dank and foetid ruin.

A blast of hot, foetid air, mixed with wood smoke and stale exhalation, had erupted at him.

Following a wave of foetid air, the head of the monster plunged by, four eyes glaring as it stared to its front.

All the time they had been running, the foetid odor hanging on the air had become stronger; .

He led the witches down some back stairs and across a yard and into the foetid sweet air of the byre.