stink

Example Sentences

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Shouldn’t the Football Gods have forced this team to stink at least a little longer?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

Taken along with the overall stink that still hangs on the Globes, which joins the general toxicity wafting in the air a mere 11 days into 2026, however, it’s all pretty deflating.

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2026

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

Their experiments showed that a short blast of ultraviolet light killed the microbes and banished the stink.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2025

The pull had led her through winding side streets rank with the stink of waste and rotting food until she’d found refuge in one particularly small alley filled with old crates she could hide behind.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray