STINK in a Sentence

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27 example sentences for STINK, such as:

1. Fish begins to stink at the head.
2. The fox smells his own stink first.
3. That has the true scholastic stink.
4. They were locked up in a stinking cell.
5. Rody Kickham was a decent fellow but Nasty Roche was a stink.

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 Meanings and Examples of STINK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stink
 n.  strong, offensive smell; disgusting odor; stench
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  Rody Kickham was a decent fellow but Nasty Roche was a stink.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  The faint Sour stink of rotted cabbages came towards him from the kitchen gardens on the rising ground above the river.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
3  That has the true scholastic stink.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
4  And, after all, they did not eat each other before my face: they had brought along a provision of hippo-meat which went rotten, and made the mystery of the wilderness stink in my nostrils.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
5  Then there would have been a stink, for some of them are high up in Washington now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  "There's the devil of a stink in here," he said, suddenly.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
7  I went into another chamber, but was ready to hasten back, being almost overcome with a horrible stink.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V.
8  We told the man we could and would make such a scandal out of this, as should make his name stink from one end of London to the other.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
9  It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in fashionable society, stink in the gullet.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
10  That meant four mornings a week in the sweltering, stinking hospital with her hair tied up in a towel and a hot apron covering her from neck to feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  Never anything like these stinking, bleeding bodies broiling under the glaring sun.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  When Scarlett first opened the door the thick atmosphere of the room, with all windows closed and the air reeking with sick-room odors, medicine smells and stinking grease, almost made her faint.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  Now the train was passing the elevator, the grim storage-tanks for oil, a creamery, a lumber-yard, a stock-yard muddy and trampled and stinking.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  It was only from duty that Carol dragged him and herself out of the warm hotel, into a stinking trolley, up the brownstone steps of the converted residence which lugubriously housed the dramatic school.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  They said you got stinking stuff to drink when you were in the infirmary.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence:
1  The fox smells his own stink first.
2  Fish begins to stink at the head.
3  After viewing the bad pictures, we can't help but wonder what the big stink is all about?
4  They were locked up in a stinking cell.
5  His acting stinks but he looks good, so he's offered lots of movie roles.