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How to use stinking in a sentence

33 example sentences · adjective, noun

Stinking means having a pungent smell. Example: “I have a stinking cold.”

Examples of stinking by meaning

adjectiveVery bad and undesirable.

  • I have a stinking cold.

adjectiveVery drunk.

  • Oh, I got stinking—and, worse, acted like the world's worst heel to top it off.2021, Mack Morriss, South Pacific Diary, 1942-1943

adjectiveAn intensifier, a hypallage.

  • We don’t need your stinking sympathy.

nounThe emission of a foul smell.

  • From the magnificent ejaculation of the Waimangu geyser, to the tiniest of gaseous emissions, descriptions of the thermal reserve were rife with dischargings, bubblings and stinkings, quiverings and palpitations, orifices and protuberances.2013, Phaedra. C Pezzullo, Cultural Studies and Environment, Revisited, page 42

More sentences with stinking

  • He's stinking rich — or, at any rate, pretty well off.From the entry at any rate
  • Jeff stumbled weavingly down the street, stinking of alcohol.From the entry weavingly
  • The thick, furry twigs of ailanthus suckers leave her fingers stinking of coffee and peanut butter.2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 173. From the entry ailanthus
  • Let that be a lesson to never take you dutty, stinking, ghetto self uptown again.2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 10. From the entry dutty
  • Residential cooking, stinking up the hallway, coagulated gravy, meatbally, mashed potatoey.2008, Dexter Petley, One True Void, Ullapool: Two Ravens Press, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry mashed potatoey
  • What was there to call him, fished as he was from the stinking Thames?1989, Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry, Grove Press, published 1998, →ISBN, pages 3–4. From the entry jordan
  • He is weak and stinking, tabescent, at the far edge of hope.1982, T. C. Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 42. From the entry tabescent
  • “What a stinking, lousy thing it is,” mutters the pantie manufacturer.1950, Turnley Walker, Rise Up and Walk, page 32. From the entry pantie
  • Not a rushlight, nor a stinking torch nor quarion would be lighted.1950, Westcott, Jan, The Hepburn, page 178. From the entry quarion
  • For the hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn space-ship yarn, or world-saving for that matter, we offer "space opera"1941 January, "Bob" Tucker, “Archived copy”, in Le Zombie, number 36, archived from the original on 13 May 2008, page 9. From the entry space opera
  • Beneath his clothes, his skivvie shirt was stinking and sweat-soaked.2014, Atticus Lish, Preparation for the Next Life, New York, N.Y.: Tyrant Books, →ISBN, page 39. From the entry skivvie
  • In most countries, rubbish makes headlines only when it is not collected, and stinking sacks lie heaped on the streets.2010, The Economist, Jul-Aug 2010, p. 27. From the entry staple
  • Raised in a muck-filled, stinking barn.” Mag and Morgan stared at the grumbler's departing back until he was gone.2006, Philip J. Carraher, The Necklace of Stones, page 140. From the entry raised in a barn
  • I almost gag as we pass a large plastic container stinking of stagnant bin juice and old cigarettes.2000, Ray Banks, The Big Blind, Wildside Press, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry bin juice
  • I was born in that stinking, rotten gubberment Mission.1998, Bryce Courtenay, Jessica. From the entry gubberment
  • Empty your bladder into the stinking mysteries of the dunnycan.1985, Peter Carey, llywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 312. From the entry dunny can
  • Only the four walls of his home still stood, blackened and smoking with the sluggish, stinking smoke that befouled the sea-wind.1983, Mary Stewart, chapter 5, in The Wicked Day, New York: William Morrow, page 53. From the entry befoul
  • Just like her stinking rotten father and mother — a bugger and a buggeress — a buggeroo and a buggerette!1964, Brian Friel, Philadelphia, Here I Come!. From the entry buggeress
  • He’s stinking with money and thinks you’re not a gentleman.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry jalap
  • "I rigged up a contraption to hold off those stinking beasts, and I spent a happy day there with a spud."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry spud
  • Max Bialystock is many things — a stinking liar, a crook, a shameless noodge, a stud muffin for the elderly and infirm.2007 January 19, Charles Isherwood, “Welterweight Bialystock Treads Softly on Big Shtick”, in New York Times. From the entry noodge
  • "Got to stinking up the bathroom.2007 July 10, Steve Yarbrough, “Section 40”, in The End of California, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 259. From the entry the squirts
  • He turned, on hands and knees, and puked into the thunder mug, adding that to the already stinking contents of the container.2003, Tabor Evans, Longarm #293: Longarm and the Poisoners. From the entry thunder mug
  • So Marston cooperates, enters the stinking lavatory stall to change clothes, opens the diplomatic bags himself while the slow-witted cabbagehead remains outside.1983, Robert L. Duncan, The Queen's Messenger, page 282. From the entry cabbagehead
  • Thus I live impudic names of phallus or phalli of dog which indicated mushrooms basidiomycetes of phallic form and with the nauseous odor (stinking, or cadaveric odor I noted).2002 May 29, Jeff, “Demandez ! demandez ! (2ème édition)”, in aus.sport.rugby-league (Usenet), retrieved 16 May 2022. From the entry impudic
  • Statistics not only help us keep track of who's tearing it up and who's stinking it up, they shape the way we think about the game.1996, Dan Gutman, Tim McCarver, The Way Baseball Works, →ISBN, page 178. From the entry tear it up
  • But I was at an age when a stinking twist of additive-soaked tobacco wrapped in brown paper could transform me into a kind of pale, stubble-free Irish bandito.1994 March 18, Patrick Griffin, “Let's Ban Smoking Outright”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry bandito
  • But then he lost his footing when he hit the deck, and sprawled flat in a puddle of stinking grax, a foul mixture of blood, grease, and swill.1968, Bryce Walton, Harpoon Gunner, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., page 84. From the entry grax
  • He swans around that stinking office in his expensive clothes that are a little too tight for comfort, he swans around that stinking office without a care in the world.2010, Lee Rourke, The Canal, Melville House Publishing, →ISBN, unnumbered page. From the entry swan

Meaning of stinking

  1. adjective Having a pungent smell.
  2. adjective Very bad and undesirable.
  3. adjective Very drunk.

Full definition of stinking

Questions about stinking in a sentence

How do you use stinking in a sentence?
Stinking is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “I have a stinking cold.”
What is a short sentence with stinking?
“I have a stinking cold.”
What does stinking mean?
Stinking means having a pungent smell.

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