The phrase "acrid fumes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe unpleasant, sharp, or bitter-smelling gases or vapors, often in contexts related to smoke, chemicals, or pollution.
Example: "The factory emitted acrid fumes that filled the air, making it difficult to breathe."
Alternatives: "sharp smoke" or "bitter vapors."
Acrid fumes from the smoking ruins moved through the city with the shifting winds.
Tourists are whizzing past every 30 seconds on mopeds belching out acrid fumes.
Acrid fumes hung over the intersection, so toxic that after only an hour Maico could feel a bubble in his chest, and then, in his throat, something tickling.
Under a slate-gray sky, dented vans, their back doors open, belched acrid fumes, while grunting workers loaded them with packages covered with bubble wrap.
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.
When I came up to visit the plant some years later, Jules, the cheery, avuncular partner who now manned the helm, led me through the haze of acrid fumes that wafted up from the vats of iron- and zinc-based developing solutions.
Many wear salvaged hats against the sun and scarves to cover their mouths from the fumes and acrid smoke of the nearly nightly fires that burn the picked-over garbage.
When ignited, it releases acrid, waxy fumes that feel queasily chemical.
Workers at Dickensian foundries filled with acrid green fumes still ladle chemical additives into buckets of molten steel, then tip the buckets by hand to pour the steel into molds for auto parts.
Chai said she paid little attention to the smog engulfing much of China and affecting 600 million people, even as her work took her to places where the air was acrid with fumes and dust.
Acrid smoke filled the air.
