Sentence examples for oppressive smell from inspiring English sources
A crisp breeze carried the oppressive smell of death and festering garbage.
The smoke from a thousand campfires pierces the haze of dust, and as the day goes on with assorted cooking smells, becomes increasingly oppressive to one who is not 16 and a Scout.
This started to feel oppressive.
Although his memories of Iwo Jima are more than six decades old, Bruce Bender remembered the volcanic ash, the pungent smell of sulfur and oppressive heat with vivid clarity as he sat in his Costa Mesa home this week.
The observations come thick and fast, and at times the detail is oppressive: there are too many sights, sounds and smells to take in, and the switches from journalism to a kind of prose poetry feel strained.
We put on our masks because the acrid smell of the still burning debris is extraordinarily oppressive.
It is a fishing village in the province of Genoa on the Italian Riviera As spring bounds out of the oppressive grey with a blast of chlorophyll and damp earth smells, you start to hope that winter is truly behind you.
"That is particularly oppressive.
It never felt oppressive".
