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How to use mephitic in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word mephitic? Here are some examples.

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But why did all become so nasty in the last few years, so raucous, so mephitic?
As I delved into the brittle and mephitic pages, my skepticism dropped away like scales from my eyes.
Bilbao, once mouldering and mephitic, has never looked back. Other cities are following suit.
Danish food companies produce the world's most nutritious mink food, a mephitic, fishy concoction.
Considered in isolation from the controversies and ambiguities that surround Adams like a mephitic haze, the text itself is undoubtedly weird, but hardly interesting on its own terms.
It made eminent sense to combat dangerous mephitic air and fetor with healthful fragrance from burning aromatic herbs.
More than that, perhaps the worst thing, was a sort of mephitic fog, moistureless and invisible, that came and went like an exhalation of the arid earth itself.
Examples from Classical Literature
First one and then another endeavoured to ascend, but with a strength unequal to the task, they fell back into the mephitic abyss.
He was brought from a nasty jail, where mephitic filth was supreme, to this place where brutal men are supreme in their cruelty.
Lewis got half way down when a rank waft of acrid and mephitic air met him and half-choked him.
The air was full of a deafening roar, hysterical shouts, and mephitic curses.
Was the embryo ripe, that the womb had become its mephitic prison?
My own nostrils were filled by a low fetid odour, mephitic and abominable.
The warm, sluggish air lay about him, mephitic in its touch.
Its mephitic influence in society is too palpable to be overlooked.
But the heat and mephitic vapors of his native isle revenged him.
The insect braves with impunity the strongest odours and mephitic miasmas.
From this crawling flapping mass of obscene reptilian life came the shocking clamor which filled the air and the mephitic, horrible, musty odor which turned us sick.
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