stinking

Example Sentences

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Stafford Hopkins is good-looking, brilliant, successful and stinking rich.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Not the good, high-altitude ozone that shields us from dangerous UV light, but bad ozone, hovering right above ground level — stinking, brownish, grayish photochemical smog.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

A poisonous river of a stinking yellow liquid rushed downhill, inundating homes and fields, including the one where she grew corn to feed her eight children.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

It was horrifying for his friend to see him enveloped by stinking, rotting waste.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2025

With the rushlight he cast around, plunging his hand into the stinking mounds.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver