- past tense form of stink.
stank
Example Sentences
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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 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
Caroline and her husband, who would become King George IV, immediately despised each other, reportedly for good reason — he drank, she stank.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2023
The Valyrians had raised it, after all, and all their works stank of sorcery.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
