Sentence examples for acrid from inspiring English sources

Gusts of wind carried the scent of ash and the acrid smell of burning flesh.

You need its slightly acrid, roasted edge to cut across all that butter.

The chimneys of paper mills spew white smoke into the slate-grey sky; the air smells as acrid as ever.

Mr Kenyatta, one of Kenya's richest oligarchs, who next month will complete his first year in office, is reportedly fond of similar ritzy watering-holes.Barely a mile away from the Capital Club, the acrid fumes of charcoal fires in Kibera, a notorious slum, mingle with the stench of sewage running down the muddy alleys where perhaps 800,000 Nairobians live in hugger-mugger squalor.

Traffic fumes give way to bird calls and the acrid smell of smoke from a bonfire on a nearby farm.

The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.The intervening decades have seen the passage of numerous national and international regulations to stop the fires, but all, it seems, to no avail.

On the Tube, eyewitnesses described huge explosions that sent glass flying and filled carriages with acrid smoke.

A strange, acrid smell crept in the air.

The shock, if not the sorrow, is felt by more than the Yankees' own fans.Still, by pushing baseball, a summer game, into the first chill of winter, and by doing so with one gallant comeback after another, the Yankees at least provided a welcome distraction for a city that since September 11th has been suffering from blocked streets, acrid air and not a little fear.

PEKANBARU, the capital of Riau province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, has been shrouded in an acrid white cloud of smoke so dense that visibility is down to 50 metres (about 160 feet).

It still lacks a name, but the events and their traces are unmistakable: the burnt buildings on the Maidan (Kiev's central square), more than 80 dead, barricades that had withstood government forces for months, the lingering acrid smell of burnt rubber, and in anger, hatred and tears for the dead.