Example Sentences

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Montiel smartly takes Ruth’s noxiousness from comic to pitiful, noting her sad awareness that she’s the odd woman out.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025

It turned out tiger beetles don't use ultrasound to warn bats of their noxiousness.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2024

You could pass out from all the cross-pollutants, Snyder’s noxiousness combined with the ammonia smell of a coverup.

From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2021

Perhaps nothing has been so established as the noxiousness of Powerpoint to productivity.

From Forbes • Aug. 25, 2014

On his route to the ruins he witnessed melancholy evidence, in the condition of the surface and population, of the improvidence and noxiousness of Oriental despotism.

From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850 by Various