Examples of acrid

• In part, this is due to the realization of the futility of the very acrid polemics which have been going on, with varying degrees of intensity, for the past century.

• One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.

• We shall always know the smell—the acrid, perceptible, unmistakable smell—of the rising threat of force.

• The resulting cloud of acrid black smoke covers the entire neighbourhood.

• The people of this country expect us to resolve our differences and to get away from the acrid recital of history.

• The air is full of the pungent smell of horse manure rather than the acrid stench of incineration.

• Noise is not as black as oil, or as acrid as chemical waste; yet it is just as harmful, in condensed form.

• That is an acrid emotion and may permanently prevent the mental and spiritual healing which also needs to occur after any profound shock.