How to Use stink in a Sentence

stink

1 of 2 verb

• The food is good at that restaurant, but the service stinks.
• Having a root canal stinks.
• At some point the thumping stopped, and the steam stink.
  — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• This is gonna be all day, the meat’s gonna start to stink, etc.
  — Vulture, 14 Nov. 2022
• As the sun warmed the earth back to life, the bodies of Bucha began to stink.
  — Erika Kinetz, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2022
• Whether or not that stink ends up on him, time will tell.
  — Fox News, 21 Aug. 2018
• And the Hunter Biden stuff is a stinky scandal that stinks to the high heaven.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2023
• The law stinks because this dude could not tell wrong from right.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 25 Oct. 2019
• The train’s toilets began to back up and the air began to stink.
  — Eric Spitznagel, Popular Mechanics, 27 Dec. 2019
• Even if the team stinks, baseball remains good white noise for the home.
  — Mac Engel, star-telegram, 5 May 2018
• If the new rules stink, the league can scrap them after one season.
  — Joe Nguyen, The Denver Post, 21 June 2019
• Towel-dry down to the skin to prevent mildew stink or hot spots.
  — Kim Campbell Thornton, sacbee, 11 July 2018
• But so far, this feels like a gadget that might not stink.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2023
• Only the roots should be in the water, as the bulb will rot (and stink) if it is submerged.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2020
• Sewages can stink for many reasons, but one of the main culprits is a clogged pipe.
  — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 21 Oct. 2022
• Some dogs are attracted to stink as a way to mask their own scent.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
• Stop shoe stink at the source with Zorpads Shoe Inserts ($10 for 2 pairs).
  — Christina Poletto, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Aug. 2023
• The Packers are rolling again, the Rams are flying high, and the Jets and Lions stink as usual.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2021
• Now, does that stink for a guy that's 86 to 88 and can really command it?
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• Do stink bugs bite? Stink bugs stick to plants and other outdoor food sources.
  — Natalie Schumann, Country Living, 14 June 2022
• But the rest of America still stinks at reskilling its workforce.
  — Michelle Weise, Quartz at Work, 1 Oct. 2019
• The big-league team stinks, but the real problem is that the minor-league system might be worse.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 4 June 2018
• The big-league team stinks, and the immediate future could be worse.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 15 June 2018
• The spiders are just the latest foreign species to settle in the region, which is now home to stink bugs and fire ants.
  — Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021
• What really stinks about the job, though, is the location.
  — Eun-Young Jeong, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2018
• Jalen Rose thinks Zion Williamson should miss all of January, which would stink.
  — Andy Nesbitt, For The Win, 3 Jan. 2020
• In a note of silliness, the magic fabric also stinks of body odor.
  — Natalia Winkelman, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2020
• The Royals stink right now, and Moore and the people who work for him are responsible for that.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 19 June 2018
• Damp RVs usually end up stinking, too, and no one wants to live in a smelly RV. 10.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• Unlike most stink bugs, the bagrada bug lays its eggs in soil—as do some spiders.
  — Andrea Michelson, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019

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stink

2 of 2 noun

• People raised a stink about the new law.
• He kicked up a stink about the way he'd been treated.
• And a stubborn hope that the stink could be blown out of the room.
  — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2020
• Your team is going to flat-out stink this year and that’s both — the good news and the bad.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• As soon as his door opens, I’m overwhelmed by the stink of fish.
  — Michael R. Shea, Outdoor Life, 11 Feb. 2020
• This tester-favorite left us with no bad stinks in the air.
  — Katherine Alex Beaven, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
• Again, the best way to change this is to make a stink with your employer.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
• No one really wanted to linger in the stink of the game.
  — Lee Bosch, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2022
• The sewage stink had been a subject of complaints for more than three years.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• Look, 2019 may be a year where football just... stinks.
  — Charlotte Wilder, SI.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• The most valuable floors in a building were no longer those near the ground, but the ones at the top, away from the stink and noise of the street.
  — Tom Standage, The Economist, 17 Aug. 2020
• It’s our No. 1 choice this year for guys and gals who want to beat the stink and have clean pits all day long.
  — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
• Newport is putting up a stink about its worst problem — the stench.
  — Bob Shaw, Twin Cities, 23 Oct. 2019
• Board up your windows and lock your doors, the stink bugs are coming.
  — Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press, 17 Sep. 2021
• But the odor from the world of (stink) lingers at Broncos headquarters.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2019
• With the monster vanquished, the stink of evil can begin to be scrubbed away.
  — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024
• Sure, any kind of frying can be a bit messy, but the stink of oil and the plumes of onion and potato—that’s Hanukkah for me.
  — Bon Appétit, 1 Dec. 2020
• Wallace went down the half-rotten stairs and came closer to the dense algal stink of the lake.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
• What wrought the change was her relationship with the Joker, a big cheese in the stink of Gotham City.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2020
• Make a reservation, mask up and, as my father-in-law used to say, get out of the house and blow the stink off ya.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2021
• Chicago’s stink was allowed to rub off on the Panthers.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2021
• Give me some rats, some City Hall cronyism; evoke the stink of trash on an August day.
  — Vulture, 26 Apr. 2023
• On the slopes of Gorubun, there was no stink of something burning, and the pastures seemed green and peaceful.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 2 Oct. 2020
• Lyla had this stink face the entire time because she wasn't used to the humidity and the noise and the smells.
  — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Nov. 2023
• Be prepared to get the stink eye from your line-mates if you grossly over order, though.
  — Dominic Armato, azcentral, 26 Feb. 2020
• Not a dumb guy, Orton made enough stink that the Cowboys released him rather than put up with all the noise.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 3 May 2020
• Among the spiders’ prey is the stink bug, an agricultural pest.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 10 Mar. 2022
• Returning to the restaurant for the first time, he was hit by a stink that seemed to be coming from the stream below ground.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 9 Dec. 2020
• On behalf of all the brides who dream of elaborate weddings, 2020 stink-stank-stunk.
  — Sally Schwartz Higginson, chicagotribune.com, 21 Dec. 2020
• Unlike those two-stroke trimmers, this is a fraction of the noise and–of course–there’s no stink from exhaust fumes.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024