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Example sentences for "stench"

Lexicographically close words:
stemme; stemmed; stemmer; stemming; stems; stenches; stencil; stenciled; stenciling; stencilled
  1. The stench from his breath indicates that his body repudiates such uncleanliness.

  2. They replied, "By others they are perceived as offensive odors from excrement and as the putrid smell from dead bodies and as the reeking stench from stagnant urine.

  3. But Rome with sorceries and magic wand Soon raised a cloud that darken'd every land; And thine was smother'd in the stench and fog Of Tiber's marshes and the papal bog.

  4. Already it was filled with that stench of blood and dirt and iodoform which afterwards used to sicken me as I helped to carry in the wounded or carry out the dead.

  5. The stench of this corruption floats down upon us with foul odours.

  6. He was all rotten," said the soldier, "and there came such a terrible stench from him that I nearly dropped him, and vomited as I carried him along.

  7. The smell of wet and muddy clothes, coagulated blood and gangrened limbs, of iodine and chloroform, sickness and sweat of agony, made a stench which struck one's senses with a foul blow.

  8. Swarms of flies were black upon them, browsing on their putrefying flesh, from which a stench came poisoning the air and rising above the scent of flowers and the sweet smell of hay in eddying waves of abominable odour.

  9. So fell a blast hath ne'er mine ears saluted, nor yet a stench so all-pervading and immortal.

  10. The heat and stench in these close and fetid lanes were overpowering, and it was an intense relief to emerge at last on one of the broad streets that pierce the city and which led us to a gateway in the wall.

  11. Also he became aware of a curious charnel-house kind of stench that now and then issued from the cavern.

  12. And yet-- what about that abominable stench which issued from the cave; how was that to be accounted for?

  13. Then our men ordered some of the Saracens to carry off the dead, because the foul stench of the bodies was oppressive, and the city was filled with so many corpses that the Franks were unable to move without stepping on dead bodies.

  14. Does the stench of the meat not spread, coming from that depth?

  15. The ant, gifted with greater powers of scent, hurries up before there is any stench at all.

  16. But the stench was gone--the dreadful stench of death which had clothed it during the second battle; it was just a dead town--dead and decently buried in great heaps of broken brick.

  17. The miserable revelations that come from our courts are veritable cesspools reeking with stench and bestial filth.

  18. His nose wrinkled against the stench of the uncleaned kennels.

  19. The bodies were swollen enormously in the sun, and the stench was something awful in all the surroundings.

  20. Though we should be both to be any hindrance to our good friends the physicians, yet we cannot but take notice, what infection her Majesty's subjects are liable to from the horrible stench of so many corpses.

  21. Some occupations are as unhealthy as those of the lead-works in Siberia; and in others there is a stench which a stranger can scarcely endure for a minute.

  22. The various machines are ingenious in the highest degree; but the stench and the unwholesome air, as well as the dust in many of the operations, must be very unhealthy to the poor workmen, who moreover were all of a dark blue colour.

  23. A thorn bush or two sticks up on it, or, now and then, the ghastly shape of a dead horse lying in puffed up relief with legs sticking out stiff and straight and an awful stench blowing from it.

  24. The beasts, horses and oxen, are strewn about, dead and putrid, and deserters say that the stench from their rotting carcasses is unbearable.

  25. But the limb in the latter case became f[oe]tid, and the horrible stench resulting therefrom defied all attempts to remove it.

  26. The horse's leg thrown down by Odin represents the crooked lightning's flash; the gold its brightness, and the stench its sulphurous odour.

  27. We there read of the suppuration, and stench that follow after seven or eight hundred lashes; and that some men have complained that its offensiveness was almost equal to the whipping.

  28. Thys is truely the grift of hir Father's vsury, and the stench of all hir Predecessours villanyes: it is impossible of a Kyte or Cormerant to make a good Sparhauk, or Tercle gentle.

  29. God would break that potent power which chains the blasts of hell, and let the sulphur-stench roll up the vale, how would the vision change!

  30. Norway, parched and barren as Sahara, strewed like Golgotha with bones and skulls reeking with stench like the vale of Gehenna,--witness your mistake!

  31. The stench from this source was almost unbearable.

  32. An acrid stench drifted up from each cup.

  33. That stench almost bounces when it hits you.

  34. He was instantly smacked in the face by a babble of sound, and a stench that almost made his nose drop off.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stench" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.