Sentence examples for acrid aroma from inspiring English sources

Hemlock water-dropwort is dark green with an extremely unpleasant acrid aroma and prefers ditches, marshes and soggy country pathways to the dry roadsides beloved of Alexanders.

It's also true that Yankee Stadium has the acrid aroma of burnt meat and Safeco Field smells like stir-fry from the stand called the Intentional Wok, but that's another story.

I remember a few things about that trip, including the acrid aroma of fried brakes — auto writers had flogged the car on the racetrack all day — as well as a synthesized female voice ordering me, every half-minute or so, to make a U-turn.

All these were not enough to dump the Republicans because the Democrats had nothing better to offer, because their Johnny-come-lately opposition to the war carried with it the acrid aroma of political opportunism, and because they were offering nothing in return that could pass as a credible alternative.

One of the most successful of their six collaborations, "Dinner at Eight" (revived at the Vivian Beaumont, at Lincoln Center, under the direction of Gerald Gutierrez) offers a glimpse of the de-luxe life in the dog days of the Depression, reminding us, seventy years later, of the first time the acrid aroma of collapse and rapacity pervaded American life.

The idea is that every odor molecule that enters our nose has a specific shape that fits a specific receptor like a key fits a lock allowing us to detect, say, the acrid aroma of burnt coffee.

For decades, the acrid odor of pulp mills blanketed the city, so much so that it was known around Puget Sound as the Tacoma aroma.

An acrid smell still filled the air.

The breeze carried an acrid smell, like gasoline fumes.

A strange, acrid smell crept in the air.

The acrid smell of gun smoke filled the air.