MIASMA in a Sentence
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Example sentences for MIASMA, such as:
1. The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him.
2. A miasma of pollution hung in the air above Mexico City.
3. Add suffocation by miasmas, burial by slides, and sudden crumbling of the earth.
4. There was an earthy smell, as of some dry miasma, which came through the fouler air.
5. It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, rendered the century healthy, crowned the populace.
2. A miasma of pollution hung in the air above Mexico City.
3. Add suffocation by miasmas, burial by slides, and sudden crumbling of the earth.
4. There was an earthy smell, as of some dry miasma, which came through the fouler air.
5. It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, rendered the century healthy, crowned the populace.
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Meanings and Examples of MIASMA
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miasma
n. swamp gas; heavy, vaporous atmosphere, often emanating from decaying matter; pervasive corrupting influence
Classic Sentence:
1 It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, rendered the century healthy, crowned the populace.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
2 All sorts of phantoms haunt these long, solitary corridors; everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing-holes, where Villon within converses with Rabelais without.
3 The intermittent gleams from the air-holes only appeared at very long intervals, and were so wan that the full sunlight seemed like the light of the moon; all the rest was mist, miasma, opaqueness, blackness.
4 There was an earthy smell, as of some dry miasma, which came through the fouler air.
5 Add suffocation by miasmas, burial by slides, and sudden crumbling of the earth.
6 After the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and traps; after chaos, the sewer.
7 The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him.
Example Sentence:
1 The smog hung over Victorian London like a dark cloud; noisome, reeking of decay, it was a visible miasma.
2 A miasma of pollution hung in the air above Mexico City.