How to Use stink up in a Sentence

stink up

verb
  • Frankly, a single smoker will stink up an entire car.
    Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2026
  • HeyGears makes its own ink that's said to produce a lot less odor than other brands, and a carbon filter in the printer helps prevent stinking up your studio space.
    New Atlas, 27 July 2026
  • The seaweed, which is a form of algae, washes up on shorelines in South Florida, impeding swimmers and stinking up the beach.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2026
  • For the record, even if the Rangers’ ERA was the best in baseball last season and the offense stunk up the Metroplex, Young did well to add to the rotation.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Little surprise that the pair explore the wider context of Brazil’s 1970 World Cup triumph, namely the military dictatorship that sapped national pride and heaped enormous pressure on a team — one who’d stunk up the tournament four years earlier — to restore it.
    Jon O'Brien, Vulture, 10 June 2026

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