Sentences with acrid
ac·rid
A a - The room filled with the acrid smell of tobacco.
- Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
- I didn't even taste it because even the smell was so acrid and horrible.
- The lesser pungency of the smell of napalm allows one to detect the acrid reek of hypocrisy.
- The bombardier beetle sprays acrid secretions to defend itself.
- That man has an acrid temper.
- Instead, acrid, instant coffee abounds.
- Freese regales us with vivid descriptions of putrid cities haloed by acrid black fogs.
- acrid smoke from burning rubber.
- acrid remarks.
- Rowers were not helped when an electricity generator caught fire near the finish line, blowing acrid smoke down the course.