Example sentences for: stench

How can you use “stench” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And although the ancestors of some Puzzos might have lived near a well ( puzza dialect for pozzo well or fountain), the forebears of others may have smelled like a sewer ( puzzo stench).

  • The papers report that hardest hit in Venezuela is the coastal state of Vargas, which has been transformed, says the LAT , into "a landscape of destruction filled with the stench of death."

  • The food is inedible, the noise is unbearable, the stench is unimaginable, the "bend and spread 'em" searches are unendurable.

  • Years later I read that the expression comes from the first two letters of Puteoli (Pozzuoli), near Naples, whose refineries produced such a stench in ancient times that seamen entering the Bay of Naples could smell the town long before they set eyes on it.

  • A month in the hole, a cockroach infestation, the stench of mystery meat--these were topics that would revolt broad-minded readers.


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