stenchy

Example Sentences

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Despite the sordid tenements, putrid poolrooms, stenchy saloons, dirty streets and flying garbage, they provided their children with emotional security and imbued them with dignity.

From Time Magazine Archive

No stenchy anathemas cast Upon Providence, women, the world.

From Poems — Volume 3 by Meredith, George

Those two cases of fever in that old frame tenement up a narrow, stenchy alley were the quiet opening of a new act in the drama that was played that year in Westville.

From Counsel for the Defense by Chapman, Charles M.

You may contribute something for their support; then pass into the temple, a grim and stenchy place, for it is populous with sacred cows and with beggars.

From Following the Equator, Part 6 by Twain, Mark

I stayed there three hours; and I suppose if it hadn’t been for the horrid stenchy smell I’d be there yet.”

From Out of the Air by Gillmore, Inez Haynes