How to Use stench in a Sentence

stench

noun
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  • The streets of Port-au-Prince reek with the stench of the dead.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Acrid smoke filtered through the room and the dogs fled the stench.
    — Alex Cranz, Wired, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The thick, sticky stench of the dead lingered around the morgue for weeks.
    — Erika Kinetz, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2022
  • With Jack's scent out of my nose, the stench of the place hits me anew.
    — Jessica Leon, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • The stench grew stronger as Cruz approached the boys' room.
    — Chris Ramirez, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
  • The stench was worth it, for the dye could fetch its weight in gold.
    — Mark Woolmer, National Geographic, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Those who still wore masks did so in part to keep out the dust and stench.
    — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2020
  • The sheets will absorb the stench while adding a pleasant scent.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The Michael Sussmann trial is over, but the stench lingers.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 2 June 2022
  • What is that foul stench that just wafted in from the past?
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Near the chicken sheds, the stench of manure was strong.
    — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Trees were scorched in seconds; the stench of jet fuel hung in the air.
    — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023
  • Or the stench of the garbage sticks around, even after the trash can has been emptied.
    — Lindsey M. Roberts, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Thank you Randy, working hard to clean up the stench of the 2020 Election Hoax!
    — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Then, along the highway from the airport, the stench of sewage arrives.
    — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • That stench of old seafood or the fetid smell of rotting meat are foul, to be sure.
    — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The arrest feels righteous, but the stench of the man’s menace lingers.
    — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The villagers toiled in a scene of horror: The air was filled with the stench of dead cattle.
    — Sam Metz and Mosa'ab Elshamy, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Even so, the stench wafting out of the bathroom was putrid.
    — Dante Ross, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • That fishy stench of old seafood or the fetid smell of rotting meat are foul smells, to be sure.
    — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2021
  • The stench of oil, coal and gas, from here to Moscow, is ever-present.
    — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2022
  • There was the toast that was left way too long in the microwave and left the stench of burning throughout the house.
    — Greg Swatek, baltimoresun.com, 17 May 2021
  • Of course, anyone who uses one knows this by the stench.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The stench of bodies from the rubble has gotten stronger.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2021
  • Along with the oil blobs on the beach and the sheen of oil in the coastal waters, the oil spill has left the area with a palpable stench.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 3 Oct. 2021
  • There is no sea breeze, just the stench of rotting seaweed.
    — Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024
  • The only way to get rid of the stench was to demolish the Aztec houses to bury the dead in the rubble.
    — Mark Stevenson, Star Tribune, 19 May 2021
  • Where the musk of teenage cologne once lingered, the stench of standing water crept in.
    — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The glow of paradise is offset by the stench of crime, usually committed by craven schemers.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024
  • That group came out with low energy at both ends of the court and the stench of their effort lingered throughout regulation.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2024

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