How to Use stench in a Sentence

stench

noun

• The streets of Port-au-Prince reek with the stench of the dead.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
• Acrid smoke filtered through the room and the dogs fled the stench.
  — Alex Cranz, Wired, 21 Apr. 2021
• The thick, sticky stench of the dead lingered around the morgue for weeks.
  — Erika Kinetz, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2022
• With Jack's scent out of my nose, the stench of the place hits me anew.
  — Jessica Leon, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2023
• The stench grew stronger as Cruz approached the boys' room.
  — Chris Ramirez, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
• The stench was worth it, for the dye could fetch its weight in gold.
  — Mark Woolmer, National Geographic, 24 Sep. 2020
• Those who still wore masks did so in part to keep out the dust and stench.
  — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2020
• The sheets will absorb the stench while adding a pleasant scent.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2023
• The Michael Sussmann trial is over, but the stench lingers.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 2 June 2022
• What is that foul stench that just wafted in from the past?
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2024
• Near the chicken sheds, the stench of manure was strong.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• Trees were scorched in seconds; the stench of jet fuel hung in the air.
  — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023
• Or the stench of the garbage sticks around, even after the trash can has been emptied.
  — Lindsey M. Roberts, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
• Thank you Randy, working hard to clean up the stench of the 2020 Election Hoax!
  — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 24 Nov. 2020
• Then, along the highway from the airport, the stench of sewage arrives.
  — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• That stench of old seafood or the fetid smell of rotting meat are foul, to be sure.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2022
• The arrest feels righteous, but the stench of the man’s menace lingers.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024
• The villagers toiled in a scene of horror: The air was filled with the stench of dead cattle.
  — Sam Metz and Mosa'ab Elshamy, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
• Even so, the stench wafting out of the bathroom was putrid.
  — Dante Ross, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
• That fishy stench of old seafood or the fetid smell of rotting meat are foul smells, to be sure.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2021
• The stench of oil, coal and gas, from here to Moscow, is ever-present.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2022
• There was the toast that was left way too long in the microwave and left the stench of burning throughout the house.
  — Greg Swatek, baltimoresun.com, 17 May 2021
• Of course, anyone who uses one knows this by the stench.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2021
• The stench of bodies from the rubble has gotten stronger.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2021
• Along with the oil blobs on the beach and the sheen of oil in the coastal waters, the oil spill has left the area with a palpable stench.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 3 Oct. 2021
• There is no sea breeze, just the stench of rotting seaweed.
  — Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024
• The only way to get rid of the stench was to demolish the Aztec houses to bury the dead in the rubble.
  — Mark Stevenson, Star Tribune, 19 May 2021
• Where the musk of teenage cologne once lingered, the stench of standing water crept in.
  — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 12 Aug. 2021
• The glow of paradise is offset by the stench of crime, usually committed by craven schemers.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024
• That group came out with low energy at both ends of the court and the stench of their effort lingered throughout regulation.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024