stink
Example Sentences
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They don’t have any natural predators and have a big web that is able to capture a diverse range of prey, including beetles, wasps and stink bugs.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
European Commission spokesman Olof Gill said Indonesia needed to respect the cheese names or there would be a stink.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
Shouldn’t the Football Gods have forced this team to stink at least a little longer?
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026
Taken along with the overall stink that still hangs on the Globes, which joins the general toxicity wafting in the air a mere 11 days into 2026, however, it’s all pretty deflating.
From Salon • Jan. 12, 2026
It was like a dance, a dance in the stink of sheep and the smell of newborn steam coming off the lambs and the sounds of them, mothers and lambs, finding one another and love.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
Vocabulary lists containing stink
The Nose Knows: Olfactory Vocabulary
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Words with Two Past-Tense Forms That Creeped (or Crept) into English
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