Example sentences for: stink

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

  • Using my incredibly sensitive nose, I divided her clothing into three piles of equal stink factor (and threw in the still-spicy undies from the Kmart detergent load).

  • “Truth's a dog must to kennel; he must be whipped out, when Lady the brach may stand by the fire and stink.”

  • I incurred the derision of my colleagues by using the microwave in the communal kitchen area to nuke a Salisbury steak that made the entire floor stink like a middle-school cafeteria.

  • Yet I'm embarrassed to confess that every Glass story passed my stink test when first published in the New Republic . Now, plowing through the big Nexis dump, my hindsight is golden.

  • The famous sardine fisheries finally closed down in the 1940s as a result of over-fishing, but the waterfront district of timbered canneries, immortalized by the novelist John Steinbeck as “a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia,” has found a new lease on life today as a tourist attraction with souvenir shops, delightful cozy boutiques, and artists’ studios.


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