Examples of stench in a Sentence
the stench of rotting meat
we finally discovered the dead rat that was causing the stench in the basement
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Vape clouds are more readily concealed than the stench of cigarette smoke.
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Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2025
Adding to the stench was an apparently plentiful amount of manure, which was regularly left there by pigs digging through the soil of the execution site in search of edible scraps.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 31 July 2025
Greater Boston communities at the center of the ongoing sanitation worker strike are taking Republic Services to court, seeking immediate relief as trash piles mount, attracting rats and giving off a sickening stench.
—Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 17 July 2025
The kitty house of horrors came to light on Saturday, when a Bohemia Fire Department hazmat team was called in to investigate an ammonia stench emanating from the home.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 5 May 2025
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Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2025
Adding to the stench was an apparently plentiful amount of manure, which was regularly left there by pigs digging through the soil of the execution site in search of edible scraps.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 31 July 2025
Greater Boston communities at the center of the ongoing sanitation worker strike are taking Republic Services to court, seeking immediate relief as trash piles mount, attracting rats and giving off a sickening stench.
—Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 17 July 2025
The kitty house of horrors came to light on Saturday, when a Bohemia Fire Department hazmat team was called in to investigate an ammonia stench emanating from the home.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 5 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for stench
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“Stench.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stench. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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stench
noun
: a very disagreeable smell : stink sense 1
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