Sentence examples for smell of decomposition from inspiring English sources

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 powerful smell of decomposition led them to a fly-filled room in a second-floor annex where Mrs. Rausing's body was found.

A faint smell of decomposition hung in the air.

Most of the bodies had not been claimed, a policeman said, but some relatives turned up to pay respects to loved ones at the 50-meter (165 ft) trench, where the smell of decomposition was overpowering.

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

However, the smell of human decomposition is actually very complex, involving over 400 volatile chemical compounds.

They also heavily focused on an odor in the trunk of Casey Anthony's car, which the prosecution's forensics experts said was consistent with the smell of human decomposition.

On Friday, the San Bernardino Sun reported that author Steve Hodel teamed up with retired police Sgt. Paul Dostie and Buster, a Labrador retriever trained to detect the smell of human decomposition.

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.

An ammoniacal smell is the result of decomposition of urea to ammonia by bacteria and is commonly present on babies' diapers.