Sentence examples for was noxious from inspiring English sources

It was noxious fumes from aluminum that people feared.

Getting too close to Rob Ford – or being seen to be – was noxious enough in 2011.

The cult of martyrs was noxious in 1920s Italy: the thugs of the fascist squads who died in the fighting in the immediate postwar years were revered as such.

However, on a recent afternoon, the stench at low tide was noxious to all but the ducks that roamed the soft, contaminated mud at the canal's head, sinking a little with every step.

George Thurston, a professor of environmental medicine at the New York University School of Medicine, said in a telephone interview that the rating of 95 should have been a warning to athletes that the air was noxious and would probably affect some performances.

HBO at first tried to translate the hard-fought primary campaign between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton into movie form, but the script for it was unwieldy (and the prospect of casting an actor to play a sitting president was noxious to some people involved).

I'm noxious.

But the ending is noxious.

It's wasteful overhead, it's expensive and it's noxious.

By contrast the candied Beaujolais nouveaus that are common this time of year can be noxious.

Pressed about whether those irritants were "toxic," he hesitated, then said, "The smoke is noxious.