What is "oniony"

Usage examples of "oniony".

There were slapping noises filtering through the oniony darkness around him.

Lying on her back with eyes closed, Desdemona could detect the telltale oniony aroma of a Hungarian woman on her right, and the raw-meat smell of an Armenian on her left.

The cool west wind had blown away the gunpowder smell, and now Duffy could catch the aroma of a pot of oniony stew cooking somewhere.

I remembered those things, and more: the oniony smell of the hot dogs and relish my father and I had shared, the bite of an icy Coke in the heat, and through it all the recurrent celebratory strain of the calliope.

I have to breathe the same oniony air with Polish peasants, Jewish peddlers, and common soldiers.

But then one day, as I lay on my bed, a strong oniony smell came wafting through.

He pulled a handful of bright green, grasslike plants, pinching the roots off with a thumbnail and offering me a whiff of delicate, oniony scent.

A serious, freckled child of about twelve brought Kate a big cup of hot, oniony soup and a warm, seed-filled roll.

But it was more than the ugliness, more even than the rotted teeth and oniony breath, that had all of her senses on full alert.

The fellow stared at him in dismay, then set the pot of oniony bubble-and-squeak down on the small brazier, and frantically yanked his cassock back up his arms and tucked it beneath a rumpled split collar.

I forced some warm bread and oniony soup into my throat, and after a few swallows it was easier.

He misses their sharp staccato conversations, their sublingual grunts, their smell of oniony sweat.

As I watched Phoebe guffaw at her own bad jokes and order pint after pint to wash down her pork chops covered with thick, oniony sauce, I marveled at her abundance of misplaced confidence.