Sentence examples for acrid air from inspiring English sources

When they sail in, she gulps the acrid air hungrily.

They live in a Swiss-designed building with a superior ventilation system, which keeps Beijing's acrid air at bay.

In the first days after the collapse of the twin towers, the whiff of chaos mingled with the acrid air.

The elder sister, who is 19 and pregnant with her second child, squints but sits still in the acrid air.

Alex Webb photographed shocked commuters trudging home at dusk across the Brooklyn Bridge, with the sunset repellently gilding the acrid air.

George had almost an obsession with physical wellbeing, possibly rooted in memories of the Welsh valleys of the 1920s and 1930s; acrid air, smog, sick and injured miners.

No acrid airs of irony, condescension or frantic salesmanship hover over this gentle, agreeable musical for children, which presents episodes in the friendship of two slime-free amphibians.

No acrid airs of irony, condescension or frantic salesmanship hover over this gentle, agreeable production, which presents episodes in the friendship of two slime-free amphibians set to song.

A dream destination for cramped cockneys, Essex was nevertheless perceived as downmarket by the middle classes – a place that was physically and metaphorically downwind of the acrid factory air.

Some of us saw horror unfold from our bedroom windows, and breathed in that acrid, burning air, while most, at a safe distance, watched on TV.

In the days that followed, they saw the smoke clouds hanging heavily in the sky, inhaled the air acrid with death, heard the police sirens and ran from bomb scares.