Examples of use of rotten egg
1. The rotten–egg odor of sulfur could be smelled in places up to a quarter mile away, Broadhead said.
2. Residents on the Kenai Peninsula about 50 miles across Cook Inlet have reported the rotten–egg smell of sulfur fumes floating into their communities.
3. Charles Sturcken, a spokesman for the city Department of Environmental Protection, said initial complaints about the sulfurous, rotten–egg smell indicated that it emanated from south and west of the city.
4. The rotten–egg stench of broken gas mains scented their slog past the oil fire, the house burned to its foundation, the submerged park, the BMW flooded to its rooftop.
5. Gas leak If you smell a rotten–egg odor, "don‘t turn any switches on or off or light anything," says Bob Kordulak, a retired contractor in Belmar, New Jersey, and a code secretary for the Plumbing–Heating–Cooling Contractors National Association.