Verb (used without object) : That book stinks. ,They stink of money. She stinks with jewelry. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : an amateurish performance that really stank up the stage. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : There was a big stink about his accepting a bribe. From Dictionary.com.
Y’all know what a sceptic stank is full of, doncha?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » O’Reilly Says CAP Is “A Very Well-Oiled, Effective Character Assassination Machine”] Reference
Now Mr Paul's name stank in the nostrils of Mrs Stumfold. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Mackenzie] Reference
But anyway, "stank" is a freakin 'halarious word and I started giggleing for no reason. From Wordnik.com. [super-suzan Diary Entry] Reference
I'm not sure, but I think "stank" is typically used in the U.S. when someone wants to say "Mief". From Wordnik.com. [German words I've completely adopted] Reference
The sceptic stank is full!. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » O’Reilly Says CAP Is “A Very Well-Oiled, Effective Character Assassination Machine”] Reference
Oh, there's a good reprint, sure, but things kind of stank overall with rough going all around. From Wordnik.com. [Comic Book Resources] Reference
So I didn ` t - I though (UNINTELLIGIBLE) that stank. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2008] Reference
They wore scented hats, each hat stank in its own way. From Wordnik.com. [A Paper that Changes Things] Reference
In fact, DeCastros said, Malmsworth occasionally stank. From Wordnik.com. [The Marooner] Reference
He was sure that he hadn't stank this bad in a while. From Wordnik.com. [Willy Takes the Night Train to Heaven] Reference
The guy's twice her age -- and he stank in "" Sabrina. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Early Warning 2] Reference
All the same some bits undoubtedly stank less than others. From Wordnik.com. [The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919] Reference
The air in their flat stank of acetylene and brasso. From Wordnik.com. [A Tragedy In Three Acts (St. Petersburg Blues)] Reference
The ground sizzled and stank and finally grew sullen flames. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer's Illusion]
Dressed, he sat in the dark bedroom that stank of her. From Wordnik.com. [SHADOW TREASURES] Reference
The cigar room stank of Old Money, but we were only Old Poor. From Wordnik.com. [Oh Portland.] Reference
Fordham University had a problem: the main dining facility stank. From Wordnik.com. [CAFETERIA CUISINE] Reference
Hollywood just knew it was going to make a ton, even if it stank!. From Wordnik.com. [Q & A Jack Black] Reference
The whole living room stank of whiskey fumes with an ammoniac tinge. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
She absolutely stank, according to the family members that we spoke to. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2006] Reference
The deserted villages stank with the unburied bodies of men and animals. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
The ground was hot beneath his feet and the dark humus smoked and stank. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Not until our thirst was slaked did we fully realize how the water stank!. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
The walls had recently been whitewashed, but the little room stank abominably. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
That they stank so abominably they overcame whole armies just with their smell. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
The hold steamed like an oven, stank most offensively, and groaned with anguish. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Spirits stank for all of five minutes, but as you can see, their backed up again. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 20, 2007] Reference
When we had it we did not care if we stank out the whole lodge with odours of its frying. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
You've let him sleep in the cowshed, because, you said, he stank so that you couldn't eat. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
In the bad old days of communism, it stank up the air, polluted the water and nobody cared. From Wordnik.com. [Europe's Dirty Secret] Reference
If one ate too many sweets and pastries, as they always did, one's sweat stank, as theirs did. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
Their breath stank inside my lungs and tamped down the very minute amount of remorse I had left. From Wordnik.com. [Two Things I Did Not Know] Reference
Jonas turned with relief and got back on the path, but it stank quite as badly as the house had. From Wordnik.com. [Wizard] Reference
Fear wiping messy stank innards of a butchered pig lost on diapers I must change three times a day?. From Wordnik.com. [His Name Was Do Re Mi] Reference
They all thought I stank and you were the first one to say, "You're funny," and thank you for that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2005] Reference
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