How to Use odorous in a Sentence

odorous

adjective
  • Odorous cheeses need to be tightly wrapped.
  • The brand claims this kills common house ants as well as odorous house and fire ants.
    — Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Look out for odorous or murky waters to avoid the toxic algae.
    — Catherine Kim, Vox, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Like odorous house ants, Carpenter ants are black.
    — Eva Flowe june 25, Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2026
  • The front door was rusty and the old plumbing in the odorous bathroom had to handle a lot of vomit.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Maybe now is not a good time to crank up your riding tractor or spread that odorous cow manure in your garden.
    — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Asturias makes Spain's favorite blue cheese, the spicy and odorous Cabrales.
    — Ben Waterhouse, OregonLive.com, 7 June 2017
  • One less common way to counter odorous bacteria is the use of alpha-hydroxy acids.
    — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 21 Apr. 2022
  • In other cases, a clog in the drain could be growing odorous bacteria.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2025
  • This tiny world of sweat, bacteria, and odorous compounds then transfers to our clothing.
    — Alden Wicker, Vox, 15 July 2019
  • Here’s info about odorous house ants and their management from Penn State.
    — oregonlive, 11 Apr. 2020
  • And the very wet wipes were unpleasant to touch, leaving an odorous residue on fingers, and a shimmery gloss on our skin.
    — Samson McDougall, Health, 17 July 2023
  • The species was named Odorrana feii, or Fei’s odorous frog, according to the study.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The number and type of microbes in your gut may affect gas symptoms, including how odorous your farts are.
    — Karen Pallarito, Health, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Everyone knew that taking Kemp was going to be the necessary, odorous part of the deal.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 8 June 2019
  • Terrible smells even intruded when nothing odorous was around.
    — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2021
  • Their bodies give off odorous molecules as an unavoidable side effect of being alive.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2015
  • Heimerl believes Morrow may have been renting the unit to keep odorous chemicals from his apartment.
    — Marwa Eltagouri, chicagotribune.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Unlike sights and sounds, smells are complex, made up of hundreds of different odorous molecules.
    — April Reese, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2014
  • In that incident, sludge leaked into a pipe carrying odorous air out of one tank and the load flowed into the filter housing.
    — Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2018
  • His heinous and odorous excuse for Benghazi and the needless loss of four American lives should be laid at his doorstep.
    — Orange County Register, 4 Jan. 2017
  • Still, the stockings were certainly odorous enough to entice mosquitoes.
    — Daniel Leonard, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The odorous gas is what gives rotten eggs - and human flatulence - their distinctive and unpleasant smell.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • When other bruins cross the odorous footpath, the sugar-rich, fruity fragrance becomes a breadcrumb trail that leads predators back to the same site.
    — Ben Romans, Outdoor Life, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The crisper drawer of your refrigerator, or any icebox location far away from odorous foods, is the best locale.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2024
  • The potentially odorous oxfords and bawdy boots come on the heels of another viral foot sensation.
    — Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
  • Whereas foods such as chicken, onions, and coffee tend to have odorous gases because of a naturally smelly compound known as sulfur.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Not one, but three corpse flowers are on the verge of blooming in the nation's capital, and excitement is running high for this odorous spectacle.
    — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Not one, but three corpse flowers are on the verge of blooming in the nation's capital, and excitement is running high for this odorous spectacle.
    — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 17 Aug. 2017
  • The most pervasive of these include pavement ants, Argentine ants, odorous house ants and carpenter ants.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 9 May 2018

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