Example Sentences

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Standing on the windswept central square of Slavutych, he said that his first, "nuclear" war was against an invisible, odourless poison.

From Barron's • Apr. 25, 2026

The company's process removes the contaminants and turns the nutrients into forms that can be taken up by plants, creating an "effective, safe - and odourless - fertiliser", she emphasised.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

Radon is a naturally occurring, odourless gas which comes from the rocks and soil found everywhere in the UK.

From BBC • Jul. 24, 2023

The Explain study uses xenon, an odourless, colourless, tasteless and chemically non-reactive gas, to investigate possible lung damage in the patients who have not been admitted to hospital, but continue to experience the symptom.

From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2022

They are odourless and tasteless, and some yield clear aqueous solutions—the real gums—while others swell up and will not percolate filter paper—the vegetable mucilages.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various