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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Garbage piles now choke nearly every Havana street corner, filling neighborhoods with stench, flies and rats as residents navigate improvised dumps outside homes, hospitals and busy thoroughfares.
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Andrea Rodríguez, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
Swarms of flies and stray cats gathered around the trash whose stench wafted on the breeze from the nearby sea.
—ABC News, 4 June 2026
What To Add To Your Routine Start with these classic items, and your home will be feeling cleaner than ever without all those chemical stenches.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 4 June 2026
The problem has only grown in that time, which neighbors say has caused a rat problem and a putrid stench.
—Tara Lynch, CBS News, 3 June 2026
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Andrea Rodríguez, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
Swarms of flies and stray cats gathered around the trash whose stench wafted on the breeze from the nearby sea.
—ABC News, 4 June 2026
What To Add To Your Routine Start with these classic items, and your home will be feeling cleaner than ever without all those chemical stenches.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 4 June 2026
The problem has only grown in that time, which neighbors say has caused a rat problem and a putrid stench.
—Tara Lynch, CBS News, 3 June 2026
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 7 Jun. 2026.
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stench
noun
: a very disagreeable smell : stink sense 1
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