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16 example sentences for ACRID, such as:

1. This ball had an acrid and penetrating odor.
2. An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, dull groans.
3. The decanter of sherry was on the table half full, but there was a queer, acrid smell about.
4. She possessed affections, too, though hitherto acrid and disagreeable, as are the richest flavours of unripe fruit.
5. Georgiana, who had a spoiled temper, a very acrid spite, a captious and insolent carriage, was universally indulged.

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 Meanings and Examples of ACRID
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
acrid
 a.  unpleasantly sharp or bitter to taste or smell; bitterly pungent
Classic Sentence:
1  Georgiana, who had a spoiled temper, a very acrid spite, a captious and insolent carriage, was universally indulged.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  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.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  Mr. Rochester then turned to the spectators: he looked at them with a smile both acrid and desolate.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  This ball had an acrid and penetrating odor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.
5  A painful giddiness overwhelmed Villefort; great drops of acrid sweat fell from his face upon the papers which he held in his convulsed hand.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 110. The Indictment.
6  Already the house was full of the acrid smell of clothes boiling in homemade black dye for, in the kitchen, the sobbing cook was stirring all of Mrs. Meade's dresses in the huge wash pot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
7  The back kick of the pistol made her reel, as the roar of the explosion filled her ears and the acrid smoke stung her nostrils.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  The acrid smell of stale beer saluted her; and voices talking.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
9  As I entered, however, my fears were set at rest, for it was the acrid fumes of strong coarse tobacco which took me by the throat and set me coughing.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Problem
10  The decanter of sherry was on the table half full, but there was a queer, acrid smell about.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
11  There was no need to think them dead, for their stertorous breathing and the acrid smell of laudanum in the room left no doubt as to their condition.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  She possessed affections, too, though hitherto acrid and disagreeable, as are the richest flavours of unripe fruit.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
13  An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, dull groans.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER IV—THE BARREL OF POWDER
14  He threw down the cigar violently and it smoked acridly on the carpet, the smell of scorching wool rising to their nostrils.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
15  For even when coming into slight contact with the outer, vapoury shreds of the jet, which will often happen, your skin will feverishly smart, from the acridness of the thing so touching it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
Example Sentence:
1  The air seemed to have different grades of warmth and chill in it; they were passing a farmyard with strong-smelling, acrid from the sour smell of manure.