stink
Example Sentences
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Maybe one person’s stink is another’s perfume; maybe we’ve gone nose-blind to all fetidness.
From Salon • May 14, 2026
Basketball is a sport in which a single star can reverse a franchise’s fortunes—unless, of course, that franchise is Sacramento or Washington, in which case the team is hellbound to stink forever.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
“We made a comment at one point and people were like, ‘Does he stink?
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026
A row over cat poo has gone to the high court after a homeowner kicked up a stink about a neighbour's pets allegedly doing their business in his garden.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025
Mom would raise a massive stink, and I would never be able to show my face in public again.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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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