stink

Example Sentences

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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

I’ve never touched a gun nor smote anything larger than a stink bug.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 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

The air was filled with the sharp metal stink of gunpowder smoke.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis