Example Sentences

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Montiel smartly takes Ruth’s noxiousness from comic to pitiful, noting her sad awareness that she’s the odd woman out.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025

It turned out tiger beetles don't use ultrasound to warn bats of their noxiousness.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2024

You could pass out from all the cross-pollutants, Snyder’s noxiousness combined with the ammonia smell of a coverup.

From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2021

Perhaps nothing has been so established as the noxiousness of Powerpoint to productivity.

From Forbes • Aug. 25, 2014

Ripening blackberries even now loaded the bramble bushes, but the foul noxiousness of gas shells had made them uneatable.

From Pushed and the Return Push by Nichols, George Herbert Fosdike