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  • Hundreds of broken zippers and visible bra straps, numerous incidents of public flatulence, teeth plagued by spinach, breath overwhelmed by nasty-smelling bacteria, stupid answers to easy questions, public declarations of love met with icy silences.

    Ten Miles Past Normal Frances O’Roark Dowell 2011

  • Hundreds of broken zippers and visible bra straps, numerous incidents of public flatulence, teeth plagued by spinach, breath overwhelmed by nasty-smelling bacteria, stupid answers to easy questions, public declarations of love met with icy silences.

    Ten Miles Past Normal Frances O’Roark Dowell 2011

  • So she took the day off from work and had me help her clean the house with some especially nasty-smelling cleaner that was dissolved in water.

    Born to Bark Stanley Coren 2010

  • Cadaverine was a nasty-smelling molecule produced by protein hydrolysis during putrefaction of animal tissue.

    Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry 2010

  • Scientists believed that gram-negative bacteria breaks down the proteins in the mouth and causes that nasty-smelling breath on people.

    Pocket-Size Breath Test | Impact Lab 2009

  • But nothing beats autoclaved fly food in the nasty-smelling department!

    Paralyzed Amanda 2008

  • Also mentioned this chemical mercaptan that is deliberately added to natural gas so that you may detect where a possible leak may be coming from, nasty-smelling chemical.

    CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2007 2007

  • Another beam, not so well aimed, threw up a great gout of nasty-smelling steam between a couple of other behemoths.

    Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • He had to keep reminding himself that he had five years to go at Hogwarts, and how it would feel to ask the Dursleys for money for spellbooks, to stop himself from buying a handsome set of solid gold Gobstones (a wizarding game rather like marbles, in which the stones squirt a nasty-smelling liquid into the other player's face when they lose a point).

    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Rowling, J. K. 1999

  • It produced a nasty-smelling dark smoke that filled the cavern and forced Swan and me to get down on our stomachs on the icy floor.

    Water Sleeps Cook, Glen 1999

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