Sentence examples for acrid from high-quality English sources.

• Outside in the lobby there was thick, acrid smoke.

• As the evening went on, Dylan’s voice became more acrid.

• The acrid campaign corroded his once-strong friendship with Bond.

• Amid billowing smoke and the acrid smell of jet fuel, crew members pried open the emergency doors.

• The air was hot from the torches and acrid from smoke.

• Hot peppers derive their pungency from capsaicin, a substance characterized by acrid vapours and burning taste.

• Guarana also yields saponin (a carbohydrate), starch, gum, several volatile oils, and an acrid green fixed oil.

• The fireplace chimney had backed up, as it always did, filling the low-ceilinged room with layers of acrid pine smoke.

Use acrid in a sentence.

• These plants contain acrid, milky juices that probably make the larva and its subsequent stages distasteful to predators.

• I had a rage of ambition and an acrid dissatisfaction that, along with a love of the world, were bound to come out somehow.

• But farther inland fires continued to churn out massive clouds of smoke that cloaked much of interior in acrid, hazardous air.

• Through the acrid haze, they continued to fire flash grenades and welt-inducing marble-size balls filled with caustic chemicals.

• So Theresa May discovered as she arrived on November 6th, into a haze unusually acrid even for the world’s most polluted big city.

• Flames nearly two stories high leapt from trash cans and piles of street debris in the neighborhood, sending acrid smoke into the air.

• Anyone who has puckered their lips in horror while drinking a cheap, acrid glass of white wine will know that not all drinks are created equal.

• Around Kenosha on Monday morning, dump trucks that had been set ablaze outside the county courthouse were still sending an acrid smell through the air.

acrid sentence examples

• The acrid smell of wartime-era jeep exhaust fumes and the rumble of old tanks filled the air as parades of vintages vehicles went from village to village.

• Sometimes all we can bring you is the words of the police spokesman, the suspect’s picture from a high school yearbook, the acrid stench of the burned woods.

• True, generous feeling is made small account of by some, but here were two natures rendered, the one intolerably acrid, the other despicably savourless for the want of it. 

• “Well, madam,” he began, stooping over the book close to his daughter and placing an arm on the back of the chair on which she sat, so that she felt herself surrounded on all sides by the acrid scent of old age and tobacco, which she had known so long.