stink
verb (used without object)
to emit a strong offensive smell.
were stinking
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past progressiveof stink.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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"Harry Milne, for me, he tried everything he possible could to affect the game, to drive Hearts forward. Other than him, pretty much all of them were stinking."
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026
His sister, Cheryl Hughes, told the court he would often say things like cows were "stinking, horrible, rotten creatures".
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2018
Supposing Lyte and I were stinking enough to want to ruin any fellow human, don't you suppose we know it's to our own selfish interest to have everybody in Zenith prosperous?
From Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
One day a feeling of sickness came over her before a leper whose sores were stinking.
From En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
