Example Sentences

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Writing for Defector last year, Barry Petchesky attempted to wrap his head around the unique rankness of the latter-day Trump directive.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

At the time of Reggie’s residence, Machado Lake was known for its rankness.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2024

And the reader too becomes immersed in Friedman’s layered and luscious prose, the vibrant colors of Alma’s world, the flowers so real “you could smell their rankness, the air brimming with sweet, candied stink.”

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022

In fact, the delegates told each other, he was politically impossible, an amateur whose rankness you could smell.

From Time Magazine Archive

Summer had burnt up this abandoned pasturage, and while they sat in silence Guy rattled from the rank umbels of fool's-parsley and hemlock the innumerable seeds that would only profit the rankness of another year.

From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton