Sample Sentences for
miasma
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    The red miasma swam before her eyes; her stomach churned in ITs rhythm.  (source)
    miasma = a highly unpleasant feeling associated with something
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    The beaver ponds are never more than chest deep, but the water is cold, and as we slosh forward, our feet churn the muck on the bottom into a foul-smelling miasma of decomposing slime.  (source)
    miasma = bad-smelling air
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    I'm afraid I'll get sick from the miasma.  (source)
    miasma = unhealthy vapors or bad air
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    Clearly something had gone wrong, badly, only I wasn't quite sure what—apart from knowing that I was responsible somehow, in the generalized miasma of shame and unworthiness and being-a-burden that never quite left me.  (source)
    miasma = unpleasant atmosphere
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    In the instance where three years intervened between the flinging of the two harpoons; and I think it may have been something more than that; the man who darted them happening, in the interval, to go in a trading ship on a voyage to Africa, went ashore there, joined a discovery party, and penetrated far into the interior, where he travelled for a period of nearly two years, often endangered by serpents, savages, tigers, poisonous miasmas, with all the other common perils incident to wandering in the heart of unknown regions.†  (source)
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    Jem, sitting beside him, was squint-eyed, miasmal, and mute, as he always was in the morning.†  (source)
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    He also carried a large jar full of chlorine water, to keep off all miasmata.†  (source)
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    Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay and a heavy miasmatic vapour onto our faces, while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet.†  (source)
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    It's the source of a deadly miasma, a foul stench, indeed.  (source)
    miasma = unhealthy vapors or bad air
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    Gone—like other miasmas of her narrow mind!†  (source)
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    The sexual memory in which I was drenched during that season in Brooklyn, whenever I forlornly unloosed the floodgates, was of uneasy darkness, sweat, reproving murmurs, bands and sinews of obdurate elastic, lacerating little hooks and snaps, whispered prohibitions, straining erections, stuck zippers and a warm miasmal odor of the secretions from inflamed and obstructed glands.†  (source)
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    and this heat, moreover, which, on account of the aqueous vapours given off by the river and the considerable number of cattle in the fields, which, as you know, exhale much ammonia, that is to say, nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen (no, nitrogen and hydrogen alone), and which sucking up into itself the humus from the ground, mixing together all those different emanations, unites them into a stack, so to say, and combining with the electricity diffused through the atmosphere, when there is any, might in the long run, as in tropical countries, engender insalubrious miasmata—this heat, I say, finds itself perfectly tempered on the side whence it comes, or rather whence it should come—that is to s†  (source)
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    But now it was night, and all the miasmatic ravine about me was black; and beyond, instead of a green, sunlit slope, I saw a red fire, before which hunched, grotesque figures moved to and fro.†  (source)
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