How to Use rancid in a Sentence

rancid

adjective

• Some foods become rancid quickly.
• The best way to tell if your flaxseed product is rancid is to give it the smell test.
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Aug. 2020
• The air inside the ambulance was a rancid blend of smoke and the smell of blood.
  — Seema Jilani, The New York Review of Books, 18 Aug. 2020
• The clocks stop at the same time every night and the house often smells like rancid meat.
  — Lillian Brown, Vulture, 3 June 2021
• Plus, my mouth tastes like sweat and rancid bourbon and...
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 28 June 2021
• This keeps them from going rancid and safe from pantry pests.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2022
• Some homes that were still intact were filled with mud and the rancid stench the water left behind.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2021
• Phoenix’s rancid torment jangles the nerves and turns the stomach.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 3 Oct. 2019
• Much of the damage was from flooding, which left a thick layer of rancid muck on her floors.
  — Stephen Smith and Bobby Caina Calvan, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Oct. 2022
• If that's grade-A beef, call this one a rancid veggie burger.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2022
• This is a place of muscly monsters, rancid odors, and, it must be noted, quite a lot of ooze.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2021
• Here are some specifics to look out for: Give it a sniff — if the eggs smells rancid in the shell or after it's broken in a bowl, don't eat it.
  — Katie Bourque, Good Housekeeping, 24 Mar. 2020
• Our red meat, though, is far different from the rancid version served up by the GOP.
  — Dean Obeidallah, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2022
• Schaich says oil at this stage tastes a little acrid, grassy and rancid—almost burned.
  — Tarah Knaresboro, Popular Mechanics, 2 Feb. 2015
• The dish, still warm from its sleepover in the incubator, smelled of rancid broth.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 30 Nov. 2021
• They were pummeled with rocks, bricks, bottles of urine and bottles of rancid milk.
  — Mirna Alsharif and Chris Hippensteel, CNN, 3 Feb. 2022
• It’s the rancid odor of hydrogen sulfide coming from the lake.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2020
• But on many days, they were served little more than rancid chicken.
  — Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 17 July 2017
• Once its about 40 pounds, the corm has enough energy to bloom and put off its powerful rancid smell.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2022
• For years, the little gray donkey had been kept in a cramped and rancid stall by a neglectful owner.
  — Christopher McDougall, New York Times, 5 June 2017
• The poison cherry on top of this rancid sundae, though, is the massive 5-foot-tall, hideously evil-in-a-good-way, clown head that acts as the 18th hole.
  — Gunnar Johnson, southflorida.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• Those memories turned hard and rancid once touched by the reality of the present.
  — Bolu Babalola, ELLE, 29 June 2022
• Usually if something smells funky or rancid, we've been trained to toss it.
  — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 17 May 2017
• My car is starting to smell like rancid fat dipped in Mrs. Butterworth’s.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
• But every building's vestibule, hallways, and stairs were filthy and rancid.
  — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 1 June 2003
• There’s a slight rancid element, a bit like butter that’s been burning for too long.
  — Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• All of these things — saints’ bones, prayer snippets, rancid pig poison, sweet-smelling whale bile — were precious and private.
  — Katy Kelleher, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Cooking oils such as olive, canola or vegetable oil can go rancid and should not be used on any wooden surfaces.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Jan. 2022
• Olive oil is expensive and gets rancid easily, so don't leave your bottle on the stove.
  — People Staff, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2022
• In the early days, railroad meals, such as there were, often consisted of rancid meat, cold beans and stale coffee.
  — Helaine Fendelman and Joe Rosson, Star Tribune, 23 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024