rankness

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Writing for Defector last year, Barry Petchesky attempted to wrap his head around the unique rankness of the latter-day Trump directive.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

At the time of Reggie’s residence, Machado Lake was known for its rankness.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2024

And the reader too becomes immersed in Friedman’s layered and luscious prose, the vibrant colors of Alma’s world, the flowers so real “you could smell their rankness, the air brimming with sweet, candied stink.”

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022

In fact, the delegates told each other, he was politically impossible, an amateur whose rankness you could smell.

From Time Magazine Archive

That is why we welcome the big, genial sanity of Walt Whitman, for he has about him the rankness and sweetness of the Earth.

From The Vagabond in Literature by Rickett, Arthur