Examples of stench in a Sentence
the stench of rotting meat
we finally discovered the dead rat that was causing the stench in the basement
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The same nauseating stench of rancid bodies.
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Seema Jilani
august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
More than two weeks after the party, Coleman’s mother, Cecelia, asked him to find the source of a stench at their greystone, also in the 900 block of West Garfield, records show.
—Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
Lincoln Creek runs along her backyard, which one neighbor said typically lies low but spread into houses and let off a stench.
—Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 22 Aug. 2025
The sour stench of the carcasses was a vulgarity almost too great to bear.
—Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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Seema Jilani
august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
More than two weeks after the party, Coleman’s mother, Cecelia, asked him to find the source of a stench at their greystone, also in the 900 block of West Garfield, records show.
—Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
Lincoln Creek runs along her backyard, which one neighbor said typically lies low but spread into houses and let off a stench.
—Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 22 Aug. 2025
The sour stench of the carcasses was a vulgarity almost too great to bear.
—Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for stench
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“Stench.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stench. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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stench
noun
: a very disagreeable smell : stink sense 1
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