(n.) To cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink.
Example Sentences:
(1) I still have the stench of their debasement in my nostrils.
(2) Inside the carriage the temperature was stifling, the stench of unwashed bodies and stale urine overwhelming.
(3) It was therefore attempted to combat the hospital infections by all means with desodorizing procedures, thus trying primarily to suppress the stench by frequent whitewashing of the rooms, spraying of vinegar, by burning powder and even using precious incense.
(4) "Those are dead people in front of our house and the smell is awful," called out a woman from the balcony, her face shrouded in cloth to protect her from the stench.
(5) In addition, data were collected relating to work activity and exposure to the stenching agent added to the herbicide, atmospheric levels of which were measured with personal monitoring, on a daily basis.
(6) That’s good – but not when it fails, and is emitting the stench of a medieval cesspit.
(7) Adiós, Rajoy: Spaniards can’t stomach the stench of corruption in ruling party Read more On Tuesday the floor belonged to Sánchez.
(8) They are kept in overcrowded cells; they are denied toothbrushes, toothpaste, and soap; they are subjected to the constant stench of excrement and refuse in their congested cells [and] they are surrounded by walls smeared with mucus and blood,” said one passage of the lawsuit, which went on to name several more hardships.
(9) The stench of corruption and conflict of interest is so heavy around him, it’s inevitable that Congress will be forced to reckon with it.
(10) It's also amazing how long senior management at RBS took to fix the bank's Libor controls once the rotten stench emerged.
(11) More recently, the stunning beauty of the bay – backdrop for some of Rio’s most spectacular sights – has been at odds with an often appalling stench of human waste and other forms of pollution .
(12) Without working plumbing, the stench in the property had become intolerable.
(13) He also posted a status update about washing "the stench of public transport off me" once he had gotten his Porsche back from the workshop.
(14) Below him pipes of natural gas pump flames into the stack, lighting a fire that will burn day and night for 17 days to bake the bricks at 1080 degrees Celsius, sending the stench of sulphur into the air in billows of steam.
(15) Emily Butler, the town clerk in Trout River, Newfoundland said Tuesday the 26-meter (28.4-yard) blue whale is beached next to a community boardwalk and is emitting a powerful stench that is spreading through the town of 600 people.
(16) The problem with an open sewer is you cannot escape the stench.
(17) But no matter how hard they try, the stench of death is impossible to get rid of.
(18) Even so, the authors have decided not to hold an official launch in any of the crap 50, in case linguistic subtleties are lost on, say, Wolverhampton, where smells "permeate the town like the stench of a trapped animal slowly decaying in a drainpipe".
(19) He recalled the stench and listening to the screams of others echoing through their sordid dungeon.
(20) Now some of the younger men and officers are teasing me about the way I smell and the stench in my cell.” In its recent report on older people in prison, the justice committee recommended that older and disabled prisoners should no longer be held in establishments that cannot meet their basic needs, and nor should they be released back into the community without adequate care and support.
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.