Example sentences for: stench

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

  • Several thousand men, women, and children lived on that dump--enduring the stench, the flies, and the toxic waste in order to make a living combing the garbage for scrap metal and other recyclables.

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • But it does provoke the question, Do Italians actually think stench when they meet a Puzzo or pumpkinhead when they meet a Zucchi?

  • Older Bostonians can still recall the stench of rancid meat emanating from them on a hot summer’s day and the gradual decay of the area before they were restored in the late 1970s.


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