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

I was rocking a cast at the time and also had no socks on for the entire week�needless to say, my feet were stinking.

From Time Magazine Archive

One day a feeling of sickness came over her before a leper whose sores were stinking.

From En Route by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

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 Lewis, Sinclair