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
• Or to come close to so many rattlesnakes and noxious plants?
  — Outside Online, 13 June 2022
• What noxious weeds are present in the Kansas City area?
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 9 May 2024
• The Romans thought the fevers people caught there were caused by noxious fumes.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
• Other noxious invaders are poised to make the same trip.
  — jsonline.com, 30 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
• While some fled, others just sat on the ground, covered their faces and waited in the noxious fumes.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2021
• Steam vents hissed clouds of noxious gases into the bright blue sky.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2022
• No skunk weed — that foul, noxious pot that pervades Gotham’s air.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Nov. 2022
• That left her with two options: a home in a noxious apartment there or no home at all.
  — Alan Judd, ajc, 19 June 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
• What to protect and how A noxious weed threatens the CT River.
  — Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024
• The mock smoke bomb fizzled to the floor, releasing noxious smoke, and a woman screamed.
  — Les Payne, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2020
• Little was known of the noxious nature of the fish until this research came out.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
• But what if the bad weather was a cloud of noxious fumes caused by giant bushfires?
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 14 Jan. 2020
• This mixing can release a large bubble of noxious gas from the dead zone.
  — Tony Briscoe, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• 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
• This lets most of the noxious sulfuric compounds, which are found in the root, escape.
  — Minda Daughtry, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2020
• Idling trucks and freeway traffic kick up noxious fumes and dust.
  — Kat Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2023
• The noxious weed is covered in toxic sap that can cause painful burns and scarring when exposed to UV light from the sun.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2018
• The trick was to drop the bomb into the hole and then cover the opening with dirt so the noxious fumes would asphyxiate the groundhog.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
• By Sunday, the spread of the noxious bacteria forced the department to close the state’s last open mainland beach.
  — NBC News, 8 July 2019
• On a summer day in Minnesota, because the air was noxious to breathe.
  — Sarah Barker, Outside Online, 23 Aug. 2021
• Goats are happy to eat any noxious weed but also chew on wiring and climb on equipment.
  — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Hype around Young is already growing at a noxious rate.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 5 Feb. 2020
• William waited in the Negro car, closest to the engine, with its flying sparks and noxious fumes.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
• Find a predator that’s a match for the powerful noxious weeds — one from the Eurasian steppes that tumbleweeds hail from.
  — Dakota Kim, Sunset Magazine, 2 Jan. 2020
• The polluted water turned the river a noxious orange color, and the effects were felt across the region as the water ran through three states and the Navajo Nation.
  — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 16 Dec. 2024
• Several described feeling suffocated as the noxious air made their eyes burn and throats itch.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 20 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025