Example sentences for: stinking

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

  • "Stinking fish" was a derogatory Elizabethan reference to vaginal odor; and cod--as in cod piece--was slang for penis.

  • But some of our own anti-battle cries have been a little lazy, perhaps because of the too-easy rhyming of "four" and "war"--as in "one, two, three, four/ we don't want your stinking ..."

  • ' At one time, fysting curre referred to a stinking dog, and feist named a small dog of mixed breed.

  • Maggs is delightfully atmospheric and full of peel-away details, shit-rimmed cobblestones and stinking . The quaintly elaborate names--Percival Clarence Buckle, Mercy Larkin, Sophina Smith--are a lively match for Dickens' Uriah Heeps and Augustus Snodgrasses.

  • Years later, Kenneth Tynan said this was the role that let audiences admit they'd take a stinking lowlife over a fussbudget hero any day.


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