Sentence examples for masking the stench from inspiring English sources

But poorly masking the stench with artificial scent just made the room smell nauseously like a petrol station toilet.

Others went around spraying air freshener in a vain attempt to mask the stench.

People walked covering their noses with rags or old clothes to mask the stench.

The meat had been packed in tins along with a visible layer of boric acid, which was thought to act as a preservative and was used to mask the stench of the rotten meat.

"For 20 long years, BP has embedded its foulness deep within the Tate, using the fair face of the arts to mask the stench of its true nature," he explained.

2. Excellent production values and designer clothes can't mask the stench of suspect or offensive material.

Spices preserve, and they also make the poorly preserved palatable, masking the appetite-killing stench of decay.

In portraying the civilized savagery of the Marquise de Merteuil (Ms. Huppert) and Vicomte de Valmont (Ariel Garcia Valdès), her partner in erotic crime, Mr. Wilson turns the sort of exquisite forms with which he made his reputation into the visual equivalent of a perfume that masks the stench of putrefying flesh.

Dozens of onlookers wearing masks against the stench of the city's decaying bodies watched and cheered when Exantus was carried from a narrow tunnel on a stretcher and placed in an ambulance.

Despite ventilating fans, industrial deodorizers, and breathing masks, he says, "the stench was pretty pungent".

Officials and rescue workers wore masks to cope with the stench.