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stank

[stangk] / stæŋk /




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"Everything was foggy, you couldn't open the window and it stank," she said, showing a picture on her phone of an orange glow partially obscured by thick smoke clouds that had turned the air black.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

It perpetually stank of sewage, even after she stuffed her shower drain with plastic bags.

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2024

The bag stank, like he had kept old cabbages in it, and the loamy scent of the leaves trapped inside did nothing to improve the smell.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack


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