in-a-sentence.com, use odious in a sentence

Use odious in a sentence

Sentences ending with odious

Constantine could not think where Demetrius had seen him or what he meant; while Gorgo supposed that he alluded to her, and thought him perfectly odious. [10]
He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity and fetters again so much more odious. [5]
Hogg says of Mrs. Boinville: "The greater part of her associates were odious. [5]
But comparisons used in the way of description are not odious. [6]
It is odious. [5]

More example sentences with the word odious in them

Can't you get your friends to unite with you in committing those odious instruments of debauchery to the flames in which you have consumed your own? [6]
I'm grateful to you Harry; I'm grateful to you for telling me of that odious man. [5]
Such a tumult was generally odious to her retiring nature; but to-night she felt herself merely one drop in the great, flowing river, of which every other drop felt the same impulse which was carrying her forward to her destination. [10]
It is when two shades of the same color are brought side by side that comparison makes them odious to each other. [6]
The only way to kill it and all similar fancies, and to throw every quack nostrum into discredit, is to root out completely the suckers of the old rotten superstition that whatever is odious or noxious is likely to be good for disease. [6]
It was odious to him, but he thought it might perhaps have amused Caesar. [10]
In speaking of this, I mean no odious comparison between the lion-hearted Whigs and the Democrats who fought there. [7]
The idea that this great artist, whose sharp eye could so surely distinguish the hideous from the beautiful, should regard him as ill-favored, was odious to him. [10]
I never heard the young fellow apply the name of the odious pretended fish to the little man from that day forward. [6]
But at last the odious thing was over, grim and implacable Law satisfied after he had compelled them to stand in line for an interminable period before his grill, and mingle with those whom he chose, in his ignorance, to call their peers. [9]
And it was the many, not the few, who got the odious names, they being too poor to bribe the officials to grant them better ones. [5]
When I beheld the first Persians scale the walls of Sardis, I execrated myself and the gods, life appeared odious to me, existence a curse. [10]
Their affliction brought the Dryfooses into humaner relations with the Marches, who had hitherto regarded them as a necessary evil, as the odious means of their own prosperity. [8]
It is believed that, so far as American ports and American citizens are concerned, that inhuman and odious traffic has been brought to an end. [7]
I have noticed that it is only in ships and hotels which still employ the odious Chinese gong, that you find rats. [5]
Naukratis and its temples are odious to him. [10]
How brightly the sun shone on my marriage with the odious Plautilla! [10]
All feeding-establishments have something odious about them,--from the wretched country-houses where paupers are farmed out to the lowest bidder, up to the commons-tables at colleges and even the fashionable boarding-house. [6]
Miss Cynthia, a sharper-edged woman, had formed the habit of crushing everything for its moral, until it lost its sweetness and grew almost odious, as flower-de-luces do when handled roughly. [6]
I do not say so for my daughter's sake, but because everything in bad taste is odious to me; it is hardly conceivable how such a young thing could have had the audacity to force herself in here. [10]
Who does not remember odious images that can never be washed out from the consciousness which they have stained? [6]
Some remedies of questionable though not odious character appear occasionally to have been employed by the early practitioners, but they were such as still had the support of the medical profession. [3]
He can make poor Smith imagine that the most innocent little thing he does is an odious sin; and then he sets to work and almost tortures the soul out of him about it. [5]
In his odious, peevish voice he said something--I forget what nonsense--to me. [10]
To meet Neforis or Orion at this moment would have been painful, indeed odious to her. [10]
But when he once comes to the odious class of remedies, he revels in them like a scarabeus. [3]
Ribera was fond of depicting just such odious and frightful subjects. [6]
Oh, it was odious to put a man in such a situation--ah, why couldn't Stephenson have left out that doubt? [5]
Statecraft was always odious to me. [10]
It was an odious spectacle--odious and awful. [5]
She abolished the odious little flat, gummy side-curl. [6]
At least the odious deed should not have been committed in vain; and yet he would have given a year of his life if now he could but know that it had never been done. [10]
But it is no better than a toadstool, odious to the sense and poisonous to the intellect, when it spawns itself all over the talk of men and youths capable of talking, as it sometimes does. [6]
I have inherited my father's pride, and it would be odious to me if my brothers and sisters went about in rags, and people thought we were as poor and helpless as we really are. [10]
Just to please me; you do not know how odious Eudoxia can be when it is so hot. [10]
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them. [5]
He has a long and cruel and odious life before him, but I will change that, for I have no feeling against him and am quite willing to do him a kindness. [5]
Arkansaw--it seems a little indelicate to be trumpeting forth our own superiorities, and comparisons are always odious, but still--Arkansaw would certainly have hanged Baker. [5]
It was a kind of demon to be attacked with things of odious taste and smell; to be fumigated out of the system as the evil spirit was driven from the bridal-chamber in the story of Tobit. [6]
Of two of its attributes only she was sure--that it was to be free from restraint and from odious comparisons. [9]
I claim that I never put together such an odious mixture of bad grammar and delirium tremens in my life. [5]
His religious views I do not accept, but I believe his strictly orthodox belief was based upon conviction, and cannot be charged to any odious display of piety to ingratiate himself with the king. [10]
Let us keep her out of this odious affair as is but seemly. [10]
And for my help, a sharp resentment rises in me when I reflect that he who committed that odious crime is the only one who has not suffered by it. [5]
The mosses and fungi gather on sickly trees, not thriving ones; and the odious parasites which fasten on the human frame choose that which is already enfeebled. [6]
He shrank, however, from telling his wife what he had done on this occasion, for he knew that if any person was more odious than Small to his family it was Bigler. [5]
One thing was fixed in her mind: she would never return to Tralee or to the man whose odious presence made her feel as though she was in a cage with an animal. [11]
To live in exclusive intercourse with these reprobates was an odious thought. [10]
There were books everywhere: Robertson's Sermons, Tennyson, Moody and Sankey, Hawthorne, Rab and His Friends, cook-books, prayer-books, pattern-books--and books about all kinds of odious and exasperating pottery, of course. [5]
And so the document went on, detail by detail, turning these waters of life to poison, this gold to dross, these proofs of a noble and beautiful life to evidences of a foul and odious one. [5]
Mr. Bernard was disposed, then, not to accept the thought of any odious personal relationship of the kind which had suggested itself to him when he wrote the letter referred to. [6]
The young lady departed, after casting upon him one of those bewitching glances which the young poet--let us rather say the poet, without making odious distinctions--is in the confirmed habit of receiving from dear woman. [6]
He was always delicate--especially his lungs--and this odious climate tells on him strong, now, after Parry, which is so mild. [5]
For instance, you declined old Mrs. Foster's invitation last week to meet those odious Higbies at supper--in a polite note in which you expressed regret and said you were very sorry you could not go. [5]
There, now, I've caught that odious creature's horse-talk, myself. [6]
Comparisons are odious, but they need not be malicious; and without any malice I wish to compare this journals of other countries. [5]
We are not bound to give a reason why Dr. Fell is odious to us any more than the prisoner who peremptorily challenges a juryman is bound to say why he does it; it is enough that he "does not like his looks. [6]
Has that odious Ault turned up again? [4]
But let me ask you, if I may, where you heard that odious nickname? [10]
He thought such a law wrong, but the rights of property resulting must be respected; he would get rid of the odious law, not by violating the rights, but by encouraging the proposition and offering inducements to give it up. [7]

This page helps answer: how do I use the word odious in a sentence? How do you use odious in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word odious? It contains example sentences with the word odious, a sentence example for odious, and odious in sample sentence.