stench

Example Sentences

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In drought-hit northeastern Kenya, villagers have been forced to drag their dead livestock to distant fields for burning to keep the stench of death and scavenging hyenas away from their homes.

From Barron's

“The smell is particularly wretched today,” declared a pretty, blond lady, pressing a lace hankie to her nose to keep the stench away.

From Literature

The flashes and booms continue, and I am frozen on that ledge, my senses thumped again and again by the light, the noise, and the choking stench.

From Literature

In the open sewer outside, plastic bags and bottles drift through charcoal-grey sludge, its stench thick in the air.

From BBC

The air was thick with the stench of a decomposing dog, left out to rot with no residents around to remove it.

From Barron's