Example Sentences

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Lots of books by and about women will be released in March, and this one doesn’t rankly smell, not remotely.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2022

As Seymour, the dorky hero of “Little Shop,” the 1982 musical by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, he scents his ingratiating persona as a song-and-dance kid with a creepy whiff of rankly corruptible innocence.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2019

Because of this very commercial significance of awards for commercially minor films, the Academy’s decision to create a new award for “popular films” is more than absurd and desperate: it’s rankly offensive.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 8, 2018

It was a welcome reminder that even in the rankly toxic House of Representatives, sometimes the personal transcends the ideological and that civility and empathy can overmaster appearances.

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2012

Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith