stink
Example Sentences
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She’s one of us, a fan of an onion bagel for breakfast, even if it makes her breath stink.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026
Last year, after Indian regulators accused Jane Street of market manipulation, Gerko dissected the case in LinkedIn posts: “The whole thing appears to stink very badly,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
The spiders benefit humans by acting as natural pest control, eating mosquitoes, biting flies and invasive stink bugs.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 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
One gave off the stink of smelly toe shoes the minute it was put in the oven.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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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