Sentence examples for odor of decomposing from inspiring English sources

The burnt odor of decomposing garbage was almost overwhelming on Thursday afternoon.

At one point, the police said, searches inside the structure were suspended because some rescuers were overcome by dust and the odor of decomposing bodies.

On one occasion that he knew of, Eriksson said, American troops, attracted by the familiar odor of decomposing bodies, had found a pit piled high with Vietnamese men and women who had been machine-gunned by the V.C.

The smell of decomposing bodies was everywhere.

Elsewhere, he has installed super-thin, transparent televisions to project spectral-looking images, domed speakers to localize ghostly sounds and "smell canons" that blast people with foul odors — say, that of decomposing bodies.

The odor suggested a mixture of decomposing animal matter, battery acid, and burned hair.

In "Tableau de Paris," his rollicking, pungent chronicle of the city in the late eighteenth century, the writer Louis-Sébastien Mercier describes the "cadaverous odor" emanating from churches full of decomposing bodies awaiting proper burial, and the putrid fosses d'aisances, indoor pits where a household's excrement was collected.

He powerfully conveys the prolific immediacies of the disaster: how loud the earthquake was; how, although frightened, he knew that his wife and small son were not going to die ("a kind of reptilian optimism"); the odors of the aftermath (not, he writes, of decomposing bodies but, more banally, of "piss and shit").

Fallen logs litter a blanket of decomposing leaves.

Who likes to open a bin of decomposing food every time they cook or finish eating?

That is the scent of photographs decomposing.