(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.
Stink
Definition:
(v. i.) To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.
(v. t.) To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.
(n.) A strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ken Livingstone's campaign said: "It stinks of the abuse of public resources for the Conservative party to appropriate the official social media of the mayor.
(2) But nothing has been done about the stinking open sewers that run through the densely packed community and overflow whenever there is heavy rain.
(3) Those Lords resisting an elected chamber had better prove their vaunted independence by kicking up an almighty stink at being denied any voice in the main cuts legislation whizzing through Westminster.
(4) Rare that a story stinks from every possible angle: the source, the content, the consequence, the messenger, the target,” tweeted Wolfgang Blau, chief digital officer of Condé Nast International and a former Guardian executive.
(5) For many people in this former railway town, the lies told by a politician do not stink as much as the pooch problem.
(6) Candidate members of the family include kangaroo hepatitis virus (KHV) and stink snake hepatitis virus (SSHV).
(7) wen we 1st met at one of her regular dog fights, i was bein sick cos of all the blood and she came up 2 me and sed 'all dogs deserve to suffr cos they stink and they are stupid'.
(8) But the wages still stink, the hours are still brutal, and the children are still there, stitching away in the backstreets of the slums.
(9) Some Romney supporters might argue that this election is still about the economy and the economy stinks – bad for the incumbent.
(10) And when you ask someone who’s passed along some specious “don’t get raped” tips or suggested a self-defense class to a woman concerned about rapes in her neighborhood what they were thinking, they’re likely to respond with something like “Better safe than sorry!” Translation: Even if what I’m telling you to remember is a pile of stinking horseshit, you should still engage in this ritualized expression of anxiety with me, because it makes me feel slightly better about things I can’t control.
(11) This time it was so obviously, demonstratively false, that it cut through the usual stink cloud of dubious accuracy that hovers over Fox at all times, and caused international outrage as opposed to just tweaking American liberals.
(12) They marched with signs that read, “Fear City, Stink City and now, Stupid City.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Striking New York garbagemen stand by signs reading “Stink City” AND “Abe is nuts”.
(13) Jeremy, stinking and stinging rather than digging for interview victory, can't match what James O'Brien of LBC did to Farage last month .
(14) One minute it's all "when will you WAKE UP to the fact that your STINKING LIBERAL MANURE has DESTROYED THIS COUNTRY" and the next thing you know, you'll get a message saying, "Sorry I was testy, I just got stuck in traffic on my way back from the garden centre."
(15) The alarm call came a year later, when he woke up on the sofa one morning, stinking of booze, with his baby son crawling on him and half a can of beer on the floor next to him.
(16) Twice, Dughan boarded pitching, stinking decks to transmit to them close-up footage, from which they learnt nothing.
(17) Shami Chakrabarti has undermined the education system she argues for | Frances Ryan Read more It’s the system that stinks, of course, and it has to be fought at the policy level, not by individuals at the school gates.
(18) But what sticks in my craw is the sheer stinking, blunted crapness of them.
(19) The air stinks, the water stinks, and even the fish and crabs caught in Bodo creek smell of pure "sweet bonny" light crude oil.
(20) It is a real education for people as well to see seaweed as a food and not as the slimy green, black stuff that you find stinking and rotting on the beach,” he adds.