Sentence examples for noxious meaning from inspiring English sources
Inhabitants believe that diseased aliens were quarantined there eons ago, resulting in the name Anachronox (resulting from fusing anachronism and noxious, meaning "poison from the past").
Tomorrow another noxious, toxic substance will emerge.
These results support the hypothesis that the meaning people attach to a noxious stimulus influences its experienced painfulness, and that GEXP activates cortical networks and reconciles motor output and sensory feedback.
Many nociceptors are polymodal, meaning that they are activated by more than one modality of noxious stimulus; for example, C-fibers activated by noxious mechanical and heat stimuli are termed C-mechanoheat units.
The "miasma theory" that diseases were caused by noxious vapour in the air held stubborn sway, leading the well-meaning social reformer Edwin Chadwick – insisting that "all smell is disease" – to hasten the abandonment of stinking cesspools in favour of flushing the sewers into the Thames.
Sometimes I imagine a scene of a time capsule opening years after its burial, and a noxious stink arises from the urn because its socio-temporal contents have lost all their context, and thus all their meaning.
Instead, it is on a monitor list of wetland and aquatic species under quarantine, meaning that it is prohibited to sell this species and it may be included on the state's noxious weed list in the future.
5 The judge accepted that alcohol in this context a noxious agent had effectively been maliciously administered to the fetus, but held that the fetus was not a person within the meaning of the Act.
Osgood called these practices "noxious".
