How to Use stinking in a Sentence
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Four plays, 76 yards, in 25 stinking seconds.
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David Aldridge,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
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America’s political landscape has become a stinking mess.
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Mary Ellen Klas,
Mercury News,
26 May 2026
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America’s political landscape has become a stinking mess.
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Mary Ellen Klas,
Boston Herald,
1 June 2026
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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.
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Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Mar. 2026
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Their solution to a stinking run was, comically, to rely on less than 23 per cent of possession and pick Madrid off with a classy volley from Martin Satriano, below.
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Phil Hay,
New York Times,
3 Mar. 2026
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