Example sentences for: rancid

How can you use “rancid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Older Bostonians can still recall the stench of rancid meat emanating from them on a hot summer’s day and the gradual decay of the area before they were restored in the late 1970s.

  • A "rancid little nothing of a movie" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ) that's a grim, gross wannabe Farrelly brothers flick.

  • The Bone Collector is less rancid than the last big serial-killer-fetishist picture, Copycat (1995), and it's expertly shot and edited.

  • As the James Carville figure, Billy Bob Thornton does his familiar rancid hick act.

  • But the point here remains sound--the two-party system, perhaps the most stupid political structure ever conceived, is dead if you can convince people that Bush is a leftist and Clinton can still pass himself off as a liberal after pushing through NAFTA, GATT, and that rancid welfare-reform bill--not to mention signing countless death warrants as governor of Arkansas.


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