stinks
Example Sentences
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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
He thinks each individual plant stinks more than previous blooms, but on top of that, he said: “The fact that we have two in bloom makes it stinkier.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
As the American painter recalled years later, Borger in the 1920s was a settlement of “rough shacks, oil rigs, pungent stinks from gas pockets, and broad-faced, big-boned Texas oil speculators.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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
“Well, it really stinks here. If we’re going to look at the second brightest moon in one hundred years, we should probably move away from dead things,” I said.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
