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• We found some skunked beer in the abandoned cabin, but it was not worth drinking.From the entry skunked
• Skunks are the worst stinkers in the animal kingdom.From the entry stinker
• A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk that the skunk stunk.From the entry thunk
• Raccoons, skunks, snakes, cats, and foxes are mesopredators.From the entry mesopredator
• The skunk produces a penetrating odor.From the entry penetrating
• With the arrival of European settlers, an uneasy truce was established tween man and skunk.2021 April 18, Christy Stratton & Erin Wagoner, “Hoot 'N Haw” (1:33 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 18, spoken by…. From the entry 'tween
• Why would I allow a seasonal skunk orgy on my land, huh?2021 April 18, Christy Stratton & Erin Wagoner, “Hoot 'N Haw” (0:52 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 18, spoken by…. From the entry musky
• Well, I might be a hooraw, but I didn't creep out of no patch of skunk cabbage.2016, William T. Delamar, Atavus Falls, →ISBN. From the entry hooraw
• It’s no fun being the skunk at a garden party. . . .2013 July 26, Martin Regg Cohn, “Premiers remain rebels without a common cause”, in Toronto Star, Canada, retrieved 06 Dec 2015. From the entry skunk at a garden party
• When the skunked term has a different meaning, it's given in parentheses.2013, Ben Yagoda, How to Not Write Bad: The Most Common Writing Problems and the Best Ways to Avoid Them, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry skunked term
• When inquiring of people, ask about "civets", for spotted skunks are often mistakenly known as civets.2008, Charles A. Long, The Wild Mammals of Wisconsin, Pensoft, page 410. From the entry civet
• It no longer mattered that I had been skunked in the marsh.2003, Kenn Kaufman, City Birding: True Tales of Birds and Birdwatching in Unexpected Places, page 47. From the entry skunked
• In R&D and engineering, skunk works are guerrilla operations; they are the outlaws of the formal organization.2002, Evert Gummesson, “RM, the Network Organization and the Network Society”, in Total Relationship Marketing, 2nd edition, Oxford…. From the entry adhocrat
• Calvin lays the shirtful of skunk on the ground and holds it with his foot.2002, Wilmoth Foreman, Summer of the Skunks, page 34. From the entry shirtful
• It isn't a skunked term, but it's gradually becoming something like one.2000, Bryan A. Garner, “lady”, in The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style, page 206. From the entry skunked term
• We trapped the skunks or simply collected them as they foraged at night.1999, Donald B. Sparrow, Growing up on Cape Cod: Four Brothers Learning to Stand Tall, Eastham, Massachusetts: Great Oaks Publishing…. From the entry skunker
• Mama said she wouldn't hang a name like Beverly Mary on a pet skunk.1989, Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, Penguin, published 1989, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry hang
• The old stones, covered by wild dill and skunk cabbage, are an epitaphologist’s delight.1977 September 25, “Reopened Silver Mine Changing Population In Oregon Town; Slowly Bringing Old And New Ideas Together”, in The Sunday…. From the entry epitaphologist
• Skunks are bringing several dollars, but skinning the stinkcats is an art enjoyed by few.1969, Wyoming Wildlife, page 31. From the entry stinkcat
• You're a skunk at a garden party, to put it bluntly."1963, A. R. Gurney, The Comeback, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry skunk at a garden party
• A civet, a little striped skunk, very similar to the phoby-cat of the Southwest.[1927, V. Randolph, “More Words from the Ozarks”, in Dialect Notes, volume 5, American Dialect Society, page 473. From the entry civvy cat
• I have known a few old skunkers to bleed skunks and other fur-bearers with their knives.1925, E. J. Dailey, Traplines and Trails: A Book of Master Trapping Methods, fifth edition, Columbus, Ohio: Hunter-Trader-Trapper Company…. From the entry skunker
• I took things in hand, dragged the white skunk from his fortifications, and made a counter-attack.1918, Hunter Trader Trapper, volume 36, page 85. From the entry stinkcat
• The skunk population is exploding this year.”2021 April 18, Christy Stratton & Erin Wagoner, “Hoot 'N Haw” (0:17 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 18, spoken by…. From the entry 'cue
• A skunk that has been turned into a living diaper.2017 January 14, @textonlyfurries, Twitter. From the entry living diaper
• Never caught much but skunk, civet and muskrats.2014, Dale E. Vander Linden, Eight Fine Sons—and Dale, page 68. From the entry civet
• We give you the ecky or skunk and tell you who to get it to.You get paid by them.2014, Murray C. Morison, Time Sphere, →ISBN. From the entry ecky
• We're high on skunk Barcelona snicklefritz and Lucky Strikes, and we speak loud English and laugh a lot.2012, G.B. Absher, A Mid-Summer's Daydream, →ISBN, page 230. From the entry snicklefritz
• Why can't BP go skunk up their own shores?2010 June 19, Tom Keske, “The Mack is Back in Town”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet). From the entry skunk up
• Then, he is — more tigerish than the tiger, more skunkish than the skunk, more foxish than the fox.2008, Moishe Nadir, Harvey Fink, That is how it is. From the entry foxish
• "Katie looks like a skunk," Sean said.2008, Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane, page 44. From the entry pee-ew
• Besides, my grandmumma always said that you come out the wuss whenever you get into a pee’n contest with a skunk.1983, Betty Jane Morison, Port and a Star Boarder: A Little Maine Murder, Thorndike, Me.: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry grandmumma
• They are neither lovable nor loving because they are innately poisonous or repulsive, like a pit adder or a skunk.1974, Edgar Berman, The politician primeval: from the amoeba to the White House. From the entry pit adder
• Well I don't care if it's a thing or a mammal or a skunk, he can't sleep on our money.1943 October, Robert McCloskey, “The Case of the Sensational Scent”, in Homer Price, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC; republished New…. From the entry cook someone's goose
• These skunks are your problem, Wayne.”2021 April 18, Christy Stratton & Erin Wagoner, “Hoot 'N Haw” (0:52 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 18, spoken by…. From the entry musky
• Jeez, people always want things for free, and then they have to chase down versions that aren't going to skunk up their computer.2012 September 18, David Kaye, “5 free open source alternatives to Microsoft Office”, in ba.internet (Usenet). From the entry skunk up

Meaning of skunk

1. noun Any of various mammals of the subfamily Mephitinae, native to North and Central America, having a glossy black coat with white markings and two musk glands at the base of the tail for emitting a noxious smell as a defensive measure.
2. noun A despicable person.
3. noun Anything very bad; a stinker.

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How do you use skunk in a sentence?

Skunk is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I skunked him at cards.”

What is a short sentence with skunk?

“I skunked him at cards.”

What does skunk mean?

Skunk means any of various mammals of the subfamily Mephitinae, native to North and Central America, having a glossy black coat with white markings and two musk glands at the base of the tail for emitting a noxious smell as a defensive measure.