Sentence examples for odor of decomposition from inspiring English sources

This seems to have come from another practical reason -- the smell from scented flowers helped mask the odor of decomposition.

The towing veteran testified he has been exposed to about half-a-dozen dozen vehicles during the course of his 30-year career that have had deceased bodies in them and that he was familiar with the odor of decomposition.

(Huron County Coroner Jeff Harwood told the Reflector in a separate interview that while the heart was "in pretty good condition," it "had an odor of decomposition to it").

Even the odor of decomposition would not have alerted the rare passerby, given the already rotten smell coming from within, and which surely already deters even adventurous tourists from entering the walls from Kennedy Avenue.

Predatory insects can intercept intraspecific pheromones to discover necrophagous species on the same odors of decomposition used by saprophagous insects to find the carrion that is home to thousands of individuals that may well become their next meal or host (Rivers and Dahlem 2013).

Officers were immediately aware of a smell of decomposition.

In some neighbourhoods, corpses have been set on fire because the smell of decomposition became unbearable.

A faint smell of decomposition hung in the air.

According to ABC de Sevilla, the carcass exuded a strong odor and appeared to be in a state of decomposition.

But upstairs the smell was overwhelming - the bodies were in an advanced state of decomposition.

The evocation, of course, is of decomposition.