stinky
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It’s sweaty, stinky time again at the Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanic Gardens, where the season’s first rare corpse flower bloom is expected by July 23.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Alice spends her days cleaning Lady Jemima’s stinky shoes, sponging her underwear and greasing her long blonde hair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Accompanied by specially-trained truffle dogs, foodies get dirt under their nails as they dig for these stinky “black diamonds.”
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026
The show has included the usual mix of potentially terrifying or revolting trials for the celebrities, including parachuting into the jungle, crawling through stinky slime and encountering creatures including crocodiles.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2025
‘Why don’t we’, I said, ‘slip it into one of Mrs Pratchett’s jars of sweets? Then when she puts her dirty hand in to grab a handful, she’ll grab a stinky dead mouse instead.’
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
Don't be scared of the stinky cheese; in fact, the stinkier, the better, I say!
From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2023
“But with so much more food waste, our trash tends to be stinkier, smellier wet trash.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2021
Most of the time, the stinkier the cheese, the stronger its flavor.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2021
“It was fuller and stinkier, but for the overall sake of the mission, we were willing to deal,” Penelope Miller, a resident with a 2-year-old daughter, said of her trash can.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2012
“I’ll tell you because you’re my best friend: It’s mostly blended hot dog wiener and some really stinky cheese. The stinkier, the better.”
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
Little is known about how the parasitic Rafflesia—a genus that produces the world’s largest and stinkiest flower—infects its host plants.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 25, 2022
Yet for a half-century, Mr. McGinley, 76, has returned again and again to society’s stinkiest sites, places very much like this one, in order to measure, describe and demystify smell.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
She’s started to get teased in kindergarten for “having the stinkiest farts.”
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2020
It’s a joke, but not really: Somewhere between the exhibit on the world’s stinkiest cheese and the free samples of fermented shark meat, someone’s stomach may turn.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2018
Dad also has the loudest, stinkiest farts in creation.
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
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