skunk

Example Sentences

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But abandoning timeworn procedures meant new complications—including one that led the skunk works team to the Michigan plant at 3 a.m.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

“The skunk at the party—and it could happen in 2026—would be inflation slowly going up, as opposed to slowly going down,” Dimon wrote in the 49-page letter.

From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026

And a skunk once sprayed him as he walked by the side of his house.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025

You couldn’t turn on your television without seeing this woman pop up somewhere, sporting a black-and-white skunk wig, preaching her freak-forward gospel.

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2025

There was a whiff of honeysuckle and rot and skunk musk.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez