skunk

Example Sentences

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Similar to Captain, she was wider than she was tall, like a skunk who’d been squashed beneath the tire of a speeding car.

From Literature

“And who remembers the time the skunk got down the chimbley, and we thought we could smoke him out, and we learned different?”

From Literature

They looked so forlorn that I picked them up and carried them in my cap rather than leaving them for some passing skunk.

From Literature

He said inflation could be one “skunk” — that prices may get stuck around 3% growth annually — but said there are other concerns including the geopolitical threats.

From MarketWatch

I was like a dog that would go fetch Ms. W.’s stick, even if it was in a snake’s hole under a thorn bush that had just been sprayed by a skunk.

From Literature