The sewage backed up, creating a fetid pool 40 feet deep inside the plant.
All around sprawled a wasteland of fetid pools, rank grasses, and soggy turf.
Mosquitoes breed in fetid pools of rainwater.
As she gathered her gauze and scissors, I rushed into the alley and stepped straight into a fetid pool of open sewage.
Not a yard from him, a fetid pool began to bubble.
Lying half stunned in a shallow, fetid pool, he heard the funereal thud of the heavy slab as it slid back into place far above him.
The passageway was growing damper; water trickled down the walls and gathered in fetid pools on the floor.
In the lower, circular pit, the stench of decay seeped up through fetid pools of water and ice.
The sewage system has broken down, with waste water flooding the streets and lying in huge fetid pools.
Pounding rainstorms gather fetid pools that swarm with mosquitoes and flies spreading death in their filthy wake.