miasmas
- plural of miasma.
Example Sentences
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Some scientists believed that diseases were the result of miasmas, or bad smells such as those produced by dead bodies, biological waste and other disease-carrying substances.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2022
Modern warfare creates miasmas of emotion, information, misinformation, deception and secrecy.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 8, 2018
It’s a madman’s trapezoid, a magic carpet ride of dazed miasmas and subtle brumes.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2016
It was not difficult, then, to accept the idea that foul-smelling toilets, drains, and the huge piles of horse manure that lined city streets harbored dangerous bacteria instead of miasmas.
From Salon ● May 21, 2012
Neither air nor sunshine ever penetrated into these infamous alleys, from which escaped, at all seasons of the year, nauseating odors, and too often, also, pestilential miasmas.
From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by Walton, William
