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

She’s one of us, a fan of an onion bagel for breakfast, even if it makes her breath stink.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026

Last year, after Indian regulators accused Jane Street of market manipulation, Gerko dissected the case in LinkedIn posts: “The whole thing appears to stink very badly,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

One gave off the stink of smelly toe shoes the minute it was put in the oven.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

“Something where everybody stinks is the ideal sort of outing,” Norton says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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

“The running joke in the community was, ‘The first product stinks, the second one’s better, and the third one’s where they get it right.’

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

I know everybody sweats and everybody’s sweat stinks, but seems to me Judd’s sweat stinks worse than anyone’s.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

"The sewage was overflowing and flowing directly into the river, and going into the children's playground. It stank in summertime," she said.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2025

He visited Los Angeles in 1926 and declared that “the whole place stank of orange blossoms.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2024

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

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

Black singers get it: You’re practicing the art of stank.

From New York Times ● May 25, 2023

The air got thicker and stank of sewage.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

We didn’t have whales, just freshwater fish like alewifes, which stunk up the beaches with annual die-offs that occurred in huge numbers.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

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

“I stepped on a mess of them a couple of weeks ago. They stunk like a skunk!”

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

To others, it put a stop to nights of stinging eyes and stinking clothes - and, most importantly, it saved lives.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 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

Columnists Mark Z. Barabak and Anita Chabria took it all in before dashing to catch their flights home to California, that place haters depict as a stinking hellhole.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024

Had to ride in one of the wheelbarrows as I now had neither trousers nor shoes—they hid me under the same sacking they’d used to hide the radios, stinking of onion and cows.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein