stinking

Example Sentences

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Stafford Hopkins is good-looking, brilliant, successful and stinking rich.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Miles and miles of refineries and their stinking tailings ponds, adjacent to beach resorts that run on desalination plants.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

Just last month a massive stinking lump of wet wipes, fat and oil was removed from a west London sewer.

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2025

A poisonous river of a stinking yellow liquid rushed downhill, inundating homes and fields, including the one where she grew corn to feed her eight children.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

In its warm light, Alice set about undoing Lyra’s sopping clothes and handing the stinking bundle to Malcolm.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman