How to Use miasma in a Sentence

miasma

noun
  • Gomez spent a few weeks in a miasma of panic, then got to work.
    — Jia Tolentino, Vogue, 9 Mar. 2021
  • For a miasma of fatigue seems to be wafting through the air of late.
    — Michael Peregrine, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • But in other ways, she is still trapped in the miasma of despair.
    — Amy Qin, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
  • But the canals, what’s left of them, now are lined with trash and exude a miasma tinged with the scent of sewage.
    — Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 17 June 2018
  • The miasma of truth and fiction can become dense.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 25 June 2026
  • An acrid miasma emanates from the pan in which the detritus sits.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 24 May 2018
  • Why, then, go through the miasma that has changed the entire character of the city?
    — John Mariani, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Up in the attic, a melty miasma smothers the thick winter coats, which hurt me to even look at.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 15 June 2026
  • But after the funerals end and the crowds go away, pain settles like miasma.
    — Elizabeth Williamson, The Atlantic, 2 June 2022
  • Amid a miasma of exhaust, Smalls lit a firepit on cold nights, played music, served food and made s’mores.
    — Greg Jaffe, Washington Post, 12 June 2022
  • The red miasma swam before her eyes, her stomach churned in IT’s rhythm.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
  • News exhaustion is a miasma that has afflicted almost all of us for some time now.
    — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The problem was not miasma but the lack of basic cleanliness.
    — John J. Ross, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
  • My assumption had been that words would lead my daughter out of her miasma of depression and anger.
    — Wired, 5 July 2022
  • There is no evident liquid, but there is a clinging residue and a real thick miasma.
    — Maggie Lange, Bon Appetit, 29 Aug. 2017
  • The fear of contagion — the viral spread of suicide through social groups — hung over the school like a miasma.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • According to the miasma theory, scents were a matter of life and death.
    — Katy Kelleher, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The miasma could symbolize more than one pandemic, of course.
    — Kate Tuttle, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2023
  • That perfection of air and climate that lured filmmakers here in the first place was being lost in a brown miasma.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
  • There is a vacuum—a miasma of confusion and chaos—at the top of the civilian command.
    — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Bannos says there wasn’t a big scandal — even though miasma had been cited as a great need to relocate the bodies.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Disease is caused by miasma, insufficient beef tallow, corn syrup, the evil eye.
    — Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2026
  • At the time people believed in miasma, or the notion that illness spread by noxious vapors.
    — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 24 Dec. 2021
  • All those tiny pieces of ash combining to shroud Lake Tahoe, a gray miasma that warns of the megafire just eight miles from the shore.
    — New York Times, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Outside is the new inside, so anything that allows people to avoid the miasma of their homes when relaxing is hot hot hot.
    — Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2020
  • With his wife pregnant and the neighbors restive, a miasma of anxious questions arise about the fate of Taroon and the people who help him.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The disease that has caused them so much pain has been perpetually on the news and on people’s lips—a miasma of triggers that has kept their grief raw.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Just think of the thick miasma of cologne that used to radiate from every Abercrombie & Fitch store.
    — Whizy Kim, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Troubles up top Trace the nearly two decades of Raiders miasma to uneven stewardship.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2019
  • And others still are sleeping in their cars or camping in tent cities that have organically emerged in the miasma of the inferno.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 17 Nov. 2018

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