Example sentences for: stench

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

  • 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."

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

  • 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.

  • They also noticed the stench of rotting meat from his apartment and they "heard sounds of sawing from his apartment day and night."


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