stink

Innuendo leaves a lingering stink that’s harder to dispel.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

A new breeze baptized us in another vile stink.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

“Best and Last’s” flashbacks are a walloping reminder that Knoxville is inimitable: a telegenic and extroverted entertainer with a charisma he wields like a skunk aims its stink.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

Maybe one person’s stink is another’s perfume; maybe we’ve gone nose-blind to all fetidness.

From Salon ● May 14, 2026

It was like a dance, a dance in the stink of sheep and the smell of newborn steam coming off the lambs and the sounds of them, mothers and lambs, finding one another and love.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

Officials who have since left office have also been accused of behavior that stinks of self-dealing.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

The reason is clear the second you walk into the neighbourhood: it stinks.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Imagine this conversation with your spouse or roommate: “Dude, what is that smell? It stinks like burning diapers. Did you forget to pay the air?”

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

Her stats are decent, but her attitude stinks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

It stinks that my dad isn’t living with us, but at least he’s only a short drive away.

From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks

"Everything was foggy, you couldn't open the window and it stank," she said, showing a picture on her phone of an orange glow partially obscured by thick smoke clouds that had turned the air black.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

And if the pitch stank, Borzello wouldn’t be afraid to say so.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2024

He found a place in Astana in an apartment that stank of cat.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

It perpetually stank of sewage, even after she stuffed her shower drain with plastic bags.

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2024

It then turned out that the plug was defective, and the cell stank abominably for hours afterwards.

From "1984" by George Orwell

For the past five years, returns have stunk, especially following a 28% tumble for the ETF since the end of October.

From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026

But when the Army Corps removed her beloved tree this year, all that remained was the jacaranda — the one that for years had left her car sticky with sap and stunk up the street.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025

“It was disgusting,” she said, explaining that the walls were damp and mouldy, while the flat was dirty and stunk of cigarette smoke.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2024

At the time, Garvey was trying to organize charity sports events, which he stunk at, to put it politely.

From Slate ● May 29, 2024

So what was the use in wasting time at something you knew you stunk at—like practicing the oboe—when you could be discovering your one true Talent?

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff

“These are all the struggles I think about every stinking day,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

"Harry Milne, for me, he tried everything he possible could to affect the game, to drive Hearts forward. Other than him, pretty much all of them were stinking."

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

A poisonous river of a stinking yellow liquid rushed downhill, inundating homes and fields, including the one where she grew corn to feed her eight children.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

I share Vejar’s loathing for the relentless “tree of heaven,” the deciduous plant that is sometimes called a stinking sumac.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025

When tourists complained about the horrible beasts stinking up our village, we learned to simply shrug and say, “When screechers were invented, Mother Nature made them scented.”

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate