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Example sentences for "stink"

Lexicographically close words:
stingingly; stingless; stingray; stings; stingy; stinke; stinking; stinks; stint; stinte
  1. They stink worse than feather or assafoetida.

  2. The stink of a sea cabin in a packet (what with the bilge-water, and what from the crowd of sick passengers) is horrible.

  3. He vanished, and convinced me of the truth of his last dismal account by the sulphurous stink which he left behind him.

  4. Smell badly, marm,' says Black Harris, 'would a skunk stink if he was froze to stone?

  5. During such moments, the memory even of delectable old Isaac was losing a little of its perennial fragrance--the reminiscences of all kinds of fishes were beginning to stink in the nostrils.

  6. No doubt this would come with age, as well as the sour stink peculiar to the pulquerías of the cities.

  7. The worst part of stink damp is that it smells the worst when there's only a little of it.

  8. You get small quantities of it, sometimes, in blasting, but generally hydrogen sulphide or stink damp is found after a mine fire or an explosion.

  9. The only real danger in stink damp is when there's water in the mine, for example when, after a fire, a lot of water has been pumped down into the workings to put the fire out.

  10. So, if a member of a rescue party puts his foot in a puddle of water where there has been stink damp around, so much of the gas may suddenly come up in his face as to topple him over.

  11. Water absorbs stink damp very easily and gives it up equally easily when stirred.

  12. Stink damp is rare but can sometimes be dangerous.

  13. He's noathing but a stink wi' a skin on't.

  14. There's a stink at the Cross that's enough to kill a cuddy!

  15. This room of yours, sister, stinks of poverty, as your Flemish streets stink of garlic and cabbage.

  16. Here the lamps stink more than they light," said Hyacinth.

  17. My wounds stink and are corrupt; because of my foolishness.

  18. For her Name still did flourish, though she had been dead almost seventeen years; but his began to stink and rot, before he had been buried seventeen dayes.

  19. These were blemishes sufficient to make him stink indeed.

  20. In an orchard, in a grass sod, stink bug is no problem, but where we have soy beans or cow peas or something like that growing in the orchard, or we have blackberry briars or wild raspberries nearby, stink bug is a bad problem.

  21. The only satisfactory method of control of stink bug injury is to eliminate the host plants on which they live, such as most legume plants, blackberry briars and other brambles.

  22. CRANE: In pecan and almond growing in California the effective control measure for stink bug is the elimination of the host plants on which the stink bug breeds.

  23. MCKAY: We haven't worked with the control of stink bug, because it is what might be classed as one of our minor problems.

  24. Stink bug will, if allowed to multiply in a peach orchard, ruin the peaches, making injuries very similar to that caused by the plum curculio.

  25. If there are blackberries around, it will be quite a problem to control the stink bugs.

  26. My informant advised me that Marsh had left, possibly for Boston, and recommended I be watchful, seeing trouble follows this man as stink follows a polecat.

  27. This morning I believe we could stink out Father Neptune himself.

  28. We had the stink under our feet before, but now we had it on our heads and backs also; and he having quenched our straw with the filth he poured down, had made a great smother in the place.

  29. And the stink increased upon us; so that what with stink, and what with smoke, we were almost choked and smothered.

  30. Most could not eat from the stink of the ejaculations and blood that still covered the streets.

  31. It was sour-like odour mixed with the linger type of stink of boiled chicken feathers.

  32. They would walk amongst them, covering their mouths and noses from the stink of the forced orgasms produced by their uncontrolled reaction to being caught in the rains.

  33. Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

  34. My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

  35. He found in the end that the only odour against which his sense of smell revolted was a certain stale fishy stink like that of long-standing urine; and whenever it was possible he subjected himself to this unpleasant odour.

  36. The faint Sour stink of rotted cabbages came towards him from the kitchen gardens on the rising ground above the river.

  37. The one is like a pike among the fishes, who payeth when he is dead for that which he devoured alive; but the other is like the sink or channel, that repayeth you nothing but stink and dirt, for all that you cast into it.

  38. The grass doth wither when it is cut down, but yet it is sweet; the tree that is cut down will rot in time, but not with such a loathsome stink as we.

  39. All the lights put out in the church, and a darkness and stink succeeded.

  40. If the Bones of the Nose be not timely reduc'd, a great Deformity soon happens therein, and a Stink caus'd by the Excrescences and Polypus's.

  41. In the bottom are divers round Cavities, which stink extremely, by reason of the ill Quality of the Sanies that runs out from thence.

  42. It's not the stink I mind, nor being waked up; it's the deuced awful risk of hurting somebody.

  43. For the sake of dishonorable peace they leave these native states to misgovern themselves and stink to high heaven!

  44. To his paper] Making the country stink in the eyes of the world!

  45. I've come through that, an' all the stink of it; I've come through sorrer.

  46. I am cast out to the loathing of my person, yea, I loath myself; I stink in mine own nostrils.

  47. You know wounds will stink: but [there is] no stink like that of sin to the broken-hearted man.

  48. They are hypocrites; their worship also is vain, and a stink in the nostrils of God.

  49. In alchemy the substances stink on their dissolution in mercurious purifying liquid.

  50. With lights extinguished, the walls, the roar, the stink of gas and oil crammed the men.

  51. They began throwing stink balls, too, but these fell into the water, or, at any rate, we were too terrified to notice them.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stink" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aroma; breathe; exhale; fume; funk; fuss; miasma; odor; reek; reeking; smack; smell; stench; stink