stink
Example Sentences
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Maybe one person’s stink is another’s perfume; maybe we’ve gone nose-blind to all fetidness.
From Salon • May 14, 2026
Instead, he got his stink all over the place, and now no one wants to be associated with it.
From Salon • Feb. 4, 2026
A row over cat poo has gone to the high court after a homeowner kicked up a stink about a neighbour's pets allegedly doing their business in his garden.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025
The governor scoffs, “man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
They did little but pop and fizzle and stink.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Vocabulary lists containing stink
The Nose Knows: Olfactory Vocabulary
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