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How to use noxious in a sentence

17 example sentences · adjective

Noxious means harmful; injurious. Example: “The earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.”

Examples of noxious by meaning

adjectiveHarmful; injurious.

  • If that repair does not come in time, the result is noxious and potentially hazardous.2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2025
  • Musk quickly made changes that tore up much of the good will Twitter had with users, employees and advertisers, including changing speech policies that allowed noxious content to circulate on the platform.2025 July 9, Mike Isaac, Kate Conger, “X CEO Linda Yaccarino Says She Is Leaving Elon Musk’s Platform”, in The New York Times, →ISSN...

More sentences with noxious

  • The earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.From the entry exhale
  • No heresy in our time is more noxious than trying to implant ochlocracy in the Church.1993, Jorge Amado, translated by Gregory Rabassa, The War of the Saints, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 117, →ISBN. From the entry ochlocrat
  • There are some who advise taking the noxious herb savory; in my judgment it is poison.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 208. From the entry savory
  • A rotten eggs, decaying matter and piquant, outhousey, je ne sais quois fragrance radiated off her in noxious waves.2006, Terry Griggs, Invisible Ink, Vancouver, B.C.: Raincoast Books, →ISBN, page 89. From the entry outhousey
  • The plaintiff regarded Salvation Jane as a noxious weed.2001, Law Book Company, The Federal Law Reports, volume 162, page 447. From the entry salvation Jane
  • Once They have finished with Their counting, They proceed to reeksome pits wherein They deposit noxious secretions from Their various orifices.2000, Mark McLaughlin, I Gave at the Orifice, page 11. From the entry reeksome
  • "You will conceive a bunch of grapes," said he, "which are covered by some infinitesimal but noxious bacillus.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry bacillus
  • "You will conceive a bunch of grapes," said he, "which are covered by some infinitesimal but noxious bacillus."1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry infinitesimal
  • In cities like Houston, for example, all-white zoning boards targeted Black neighborhoods for the siting of noxious facilities, like landfills, incinerators and garbage dumps.2021 November 2, Lylla Younes, Ava Kofman, Al Shaw and Lisa Song, “Poison in the Air”, in ProPublica, archived from the original on 17 Feb…. From the entry nimby
  • As I breathed in its heady aroma I forgot all about the noxious fumes I'd inhaled as I'd walked towards the Robertet factory.2007, Celia Lyttelton, The Scent Trail: An Olfactory Odyssey, London […]: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 37. From the entry concrete
  • The co-occurrence of conspicuous coloration and noxious characteristics in many coastal marine species suggests that aposematism is a common predator deterrent in the marine environment.1990 June, Mary [K.] Wicksten, compiler, Adaptive Coloration in Invertebrates: Proceedings of a Symposium Sponsored by the American…. From the entry aposematism
  • The notion that Palestinians ought to accept their lot in the name of a high-minded ideology would strike Jewish diasporists, who tend to favor Palestinian self-determination, as noxious.2024 January 14, Marc Tracy, “Is Israel Part of What It Means to Be Jewish?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry diasporist
  • But the noxious gas fired around the trendy Sheung Wan neighborhood just west of central Hong Kong seeped into packed residential buildings, hotels and air-conditioning systems.2019 July 28, Shibani Mahtani, “Hong Kong clashes turn streets into tear-gas filled battleground for second day in a row”, in The…. From the entry Sheung Wan
  • In all reported studies the blockade of chemonociception to large scale of agents was clearly shown, but antinociceptive effect against noxious heat or mechanical stimuli resulted in controversial results.2014, Omar M. E. Abdel-Salam, Capsaicin as a Therapeutic Molecule, page 13. From the entry chemonociception
  • This long, dark cattle-shed is littered with jars of noxious chemicals, viscous brown liquids that reek of concentrated Prep School, and various rusted tins, scarily encrusted with Marmitey goop.2011, Michael Wright, Je't Aime la Folie, page 301. From the entry Marmitey

Meaning of noxious

  1. adjective Harmful; injurious.

Full definition of noxious

Questions about noxious in a sentence

How do you use noxious in a sentence?
Noxious is used as an adjective. For example: “The earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.”
What is a short sentence with noxious?
“The earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.”
What does noxious mean?
Noxious means harmful; injurious.

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