Sample Sentences fornoisome (editor-reviewed)
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We experienced the noisome atmosphere of the Nairobi slum.noisome = able to cause nausea
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Quiet, primate and completely secret except for the noisome cologne signal that thrilled the rabbits before it confused them. (source)noisome = bad (causing or able to cause nausea -- often from odor)
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To look at him anyone would have supposed that he had passed the night in a noisome dungeon without food or water; but in reality he had been shut up in quite a comfortable room and provided with an excellent supper. (source)noisome = harmful
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His blind and aged father and his gentle sister lay in a noisome dungeon while he enjoyed the free air and the society of her whom he loved.† (source)
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"What you propose is horrible, Chauvelin," she said, drawing away from him as from some noisome insect.† (source)
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Not to kill me, but to bow down before me and to finally put an end to this noisome rebellion.† (source)
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Mists curled and smoked from dark and noisome pools.† (source)
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Civilization did not rise and flourish as men hammered out hunting scenes on bronze gates and whispered philosophy under the stars, with garbage as a noisome offshoot, swept away and forgotten.† (source)
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The cab sped uptown, past men in front of barber shops, in front of barbeque joints, in front of bars; sped past side streets, long, dark, noisome, with gray houses leaning forward to cut out the sky; and in the shadow of these houses, children buzzed and boomed, as thick as flies on flypaper.† (source)
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He would settle down at it with his papers, exactly as he settled down at his desk in the Municipal Office, and wave each completed sheet to dry the ink in the warm air, noisome with disinfectants and the disease itself.† (source)
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Extraordinary how soon the noisome flavour of imprisoned sleep, becomes manifest in all such places that are ill cared for!† (source)
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This food provision was generally circumvented by putting a property sandwich in the middle of each table, an old desiccated ruin of dust-laden bread and mummified ham or cheese which only the drunkest yokel from the sticks ever regarded as anything but a noisome table decoration.† (source)
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'A little noisome,' he remarked.† (source)
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Every sense of the flesh is tortured and every faculty of the soul therewith: the eyes with impenetrable utter darkness, the nose with noisome odours, the ears with yells and howls and execrations, the taste with foul matter, leprous corruption, nameless suffocating filth, the touch with redhot goads and spikes, with cruel tongues of flame.† (source)
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They are, in the language of the slave's poet, Whittier,— "Gone, gone, sold and gone To the rice swamp dank and lone, Where the slave-whip ceaseless swings, Where the noisome insect stings, Where the fever-demon strews Poison with the falling dews, Where the sickly sunbeams glare Through the hot and misty air:— Gone, gone, sold and gone To the rice swamp dank and lone, From Virginia hills and waters— Woe is me, my stolen daughters!"† (source)
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The doctor and valet lifted the cloak with which he was covered and, making wry faces at the noisome smell of mortifying flesh that came from the wound, began examining that dreadful place.† (source)
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