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

Not the good, high-altitude ozone that shields us from dangerous UV light, but bad ozone, hovering right above ground level — stinking, brownish, grayish photochemical smog.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 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

The now-shuttered Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, where part of the finale was set, is recalled by Pruitt as a dump with stinking carpet.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2024

I said, “Dad, when I get out of this stinking hole, wild horses couldn’t drag me back.”

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam