This is an acrid and pungent substance.
We do not like his acrid temper.
The acrid smell carried across the table.
Smoke feels acrid in your mouth and nose.
There is an acrid tone to your remarks.
Certainly, it brings out the best in the two sharpest characters, both of them slightly acrid.
But he could hear its hissing gases and smell its acrid fumes.
Sulfur oxides (SOX.) are acrid, corrosive, poisonous gases produced when fuel containing sulfur is burned.
She possessed affections, too, though hitherto acrid and disagreeable, as are the richest flavours of unripe fruit.
Whenever they spotted acrid liquid being dumped into the river, they scooped it up in empty plastic water bottles, villagers and lawyers say.
As a result, the acrid smoke and smog that enveloped the capital, off and on this week, has returned forcing many to wear face masks outdoors.
Working amid acrid fumes, miners excavate chunks of sulfur from the base of the caldera of Mount Ijen in East Java.
As for the coffee oil - the result of olives and coffee beans being pressed together by the Spanish olive oil producer Vea - again it is pungent, almost acrid.
It was fif teen to twenty seconds before the whole of the working area of the ship was fill ed with black acrid pungent smoke.
The idea is that every odor molecule that enters our nose has a specific shape that fits a specific receptor-like a key fits a lock-allowing us to detect, say, the acrid aroma of burnt coffee.
perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leave and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant.
