smelly
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Mexico is deploying specialized navy ships to fight a massive influx of sargassum on the country's Caribbean beaches, authorities said Thursday, as the smelly seaweed threatens the crucial tourism sector.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
As the day goes on, these smelly specimens will close back up and collapse, losing their infamously rotten odor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Some couples say their marriages hinge on one party coming around to their spouse’s cat, dealing with severe rashes, smelly litter boxes and early wakeups for love.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Pub owner Vicky Morgans from Swansea recalled the "smelly clothes and stained ceilings" before she introduced the ban a month earlier at West Cross Inn.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2025
You cannot imagine how much there was of it, nor how smelly it was.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
“In certain directions, I definitely picked up on the sweaty socks, sweaty gym clothes, but probably luckily not full-on rotting meat, but definitely a smellier plant than average,” Lister said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
"Thankfully he didn't seem to find his capture too alarming and hadn't released his spray in defence - otherwise it would have been a much smellier rescue mission."
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2021
“But with so much more food waste, our trash tends to be stinkier, smellier wet trash.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2021
It’s just a bad setup and the more people look into it, the smellier it looks.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2019
Within fifteen minutes, so many people had shown up that the room got hotter and more humid and even smellier.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
It’s like saying that the smelliest dog in town got four baths this week.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
Experts blame a mix of troubled crops, market forces, depleted stockpiles - and the world’s smelliest fruit.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024
“Odorless” on the label means it has been refined even more to strip it of some of the smelliest — and most toxic — ingredients.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2023
Or is it because chopping garlic is one of the most menial, least pleasurable, smelliest of tasks, and a refusal to do so indicates a resistance to work for our food?
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2022
“I can smell you from here. You’re the smelliest creature in the place.”
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
