smelly
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They produce 60 tonnes of the sweet yet smelly fruit, which is driven in frozen containers thousands of kilometres north into China.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Some couples say their marriages hinge on one party coming around to their spouse’s cat, dealing with severe rashes, smelly litter boxes and early wakeups for love.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
But in recent years those living nearby have complained that it regularly turns green in the summer and has become smelly and slimy.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
Never having to huff your own engine exhaust is even better—you just don’t notice how smelly gas cars can be until you’ve been out of one for a while.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
“Dreadful, smelly, ugly-looking fens they were. But,” he added, “if that’s where the cauldron is, then I say with Taran: go there! A Fflam never hesitates!”
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
Cities including Atlanta, Nashville and Louisville are so shorthanded they have temporarily stopped collecting things like recyclable bottles, cans, paper and plastic, yard waste or oversized junk to focus on the grosser, smellier stuff.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2022
"Thankfully he didn't seem to find his capture too alarming and hadn't released his spray in defence - otherwise it would have been a much smellier rescue mission."
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2021
“But with so much more food waste, our trash tends to be stinkier, smellier wet trash.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2021
Methyl mercaptan, which is even smellier, might only take one reservoir to stink up the globe.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2020
Troll farts, I discovered, are a hundred times smellier than the human kind.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
It’s like saying that the smelliest dog in town got four baths this week.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
Or is it because chopping garlic is one of the most menial, least pleasurable, smelliest of tasks, and a refusal to do so indicates a resistance to work for our food?
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2022
The ones I’m fondest of growing recently are Amorphophallus, which is known as being among the smelliest plants.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2021
Or maybe an assortment of the world’s smelliest cheeses.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2018
Korean food is the tastiest but makes the smelliest poops.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
