How to Use noxious in a Sentence

noxious

adjective
  • Patrons know to walk far around them to avoid the noxious fumes.
    — Arkansas Online, 25 Dec. 2022
  • But the study showed that even a few trolls can swing a place into a noxious realm.
    — Max Londberg, kansascity, 25 Aug. 2017
  • Some of the noxious spray also hit the little girl in her face and arm.
    — Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 27 June 2025
  • Steam vents hissed clouds of noxious gases into the bright blue sky.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Some even consume noxious fare that few other species would dare eat.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024
  • What used to look like freedom now looks like a noxious lack of boundaries.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Idling trucks and freeway traffic kick up noxious fumes and dust.
    — Kat Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2023
  • No skunk weed — that foul, noxious pot that pervades Gotham’s air.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Nov. 2022
  • There's no oxygen to speak of, and the gasses that are present are noxious to humans.
    — John Wenz, Wired News, 23 Apr. 2015
  • This mixing can release a large bubble of noxious gas from the dead zone.
    — Tony Briscoe, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • But what if the bad weather was a cloud of noxious fumes caused by giant bushfires?
    — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Goats are happy to eat any noxious weed but also chew on wiring and climb on equipment.
    — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022
  • But people were warned to stay away because of the risk from noxious fumes and hot magma.
    — Morgan Coates, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The Romans thought the fevers people caught there were caused by noxious fumes.
    — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
  • For those nearby, the fire meant a noxious smell in the air as the fire continued to burn.
    — Marie Simoneaux, NOLA.com, 18 Feb. 2018
  • Gaetz would be the most noxious pick to slither through that loophole, but there are others.
    — Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2024
  • While some fled, others just sat on the ground, covered their faces and waited in the noxious fumes.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Little was known of the noxious nature of the fish until this research came out.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Gun sites went silent as flocks of noxious drones moaned and blustered, dove, exploded, and wrecked the city anew.
    — Jamie Holmes, Wired, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The guy next to you steps out of his sneakers, releasing noxious gases strong enough to choke you.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • This lets most of the noxious sulfuric compounds, which are found in the root, escape.
    — Minda Daughtry, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2020
  • The mock smoke bomb fizzled to the floor, releasing noxious smoke, and a woman screamed.
    — Les Payne, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Biting insects are noxious for you and your pets, not to mention a threat to your canine's health.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022
  • There was also a noxious smell in the house — a mix of trash, rotting food and feces, police said.
    — Jared Gilmour, sacbee, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The noxious effects can reach entire swaths of the continent.
    — Jamie Dickman, Popular Science, 14 June 2023
  • On a summer day in Minnesota, because the air was noxious to breathe.
    — Sarah Barker, Outside Online, 23 Aug. 2021
  • And the state of New York can't prohibit noxious speech because of it as well.
    — Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The girls — ages 3 and 6 — were hit by the noxious spray, according to an affidavit.
    — Mark Price, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025
  • By the way, this is the playbook used by the noxious dictatorships that Trump so admires.
    — Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Shrouded in mist and prone to spewing noxious green goop over windows, their true form remains a mystery throughout.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 5 Dec. 2025

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