(n.) Water retained by an embankment; a pool water.
(n.) A dam or mound to stop water.
() of Stink
Example Sentences:
(1) After almost 24 hours of being told I stank and generally being treated like a contagious freak, I was so grateful for these ministrations that I went to hug them.
(2) As one contractor told me, the place "stank of money".
(3) And the brave nearly men of 2006 stank the place out like never before in 2010, a performance which would have put Le Pétomane to shame.
(4) Parfitt and Rossi spend most of the interview talking about how much they stank in the old days - they'd come off stage soaking, screw their clothes into a ball and wear them the next day.
(5) According to al-Dostor newspaper, a strongly pro-army broadsheet, Time's decision "stank of political bias".
(6) "After the first day or two the corpses swelled and stank," he wrote.
(7) In Glasgow the black Clyde stank and the sunshine, when it came, had to struggle through the near-permanent fug of carbon particles sent into the air by forges, rolling mills, ships, gasworks, shunting steam locomotives, and household fires in their hundreds of thousands.
(8) Clinical studies are performed on 15 workers from the chemical and pharmaceutic plant "Stanke Dimitrov".
(9) But the moment I came back to London I had to start again – it stank of cigarettes and got very dirty very quickly.
(10) "No 10 insisted on letting this go ahead, when it stank," she said.
(11) Newsnight producer Merion Jones, in an email to editor Peter Rippon, on evidence from one woman about the sex abuse that allegedly took place at BBC Television Centre: "One particular celebrity [redacted] absolutely stank of booze and sweat.
(12) In the UK, the admissions cover a highly controversial sale of a military radar to poverty-stricken Tanzania, which the development secretary Clare Short said at the time "stank" of corruption, but which the then prime minister, Tony Blair, forced through the cabinet.
(13) The city's Victorian plumbing was struggling to cope with the July heat and the place stank of sewage.
(14) £28m radar deal 'stank' Tanzania, on Africa's east coast, is one of the poorest states in the world, formerly controlled in turn by Arab slavers, German colonists and the British.
(15) A communal kitchen stank of shitty nappies and urine; and the occasional waft of cannabis from the landing opposite where another row of rooms housed other hostel residents.
(16) Whatever, this Early Days of Moulin Rouge theme is really working for me, given the manner in which they stank out the first leg was reminiscent of none other than Le Pétomane.
(17) It stank of sweat and the mouldering shirts, which they wore "till they fell apart, mate".)
(18) Dizzee Rascal has a few low-profile business interests, including a record label, Dirtee Stank, and Dirtee TV production company.
(19) Wormwood Scrubs filthy, overcrowded and dilapidated – prisons watchdog Read more In his concluding paragraph, Hardwick described meeting an 18-year-old who had for several months spent at least 22 hours a day in a cell with a broken window and a toilet that stank.
(20) The room was normally used as a nightclub, so it stank of alcopops and sick.