Stink is an English word with synonyms like reek or smell. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Stink in a sentence
Related words
Stink meaning
- To have a strong bad smell.
- To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.
- To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin.
Synonyms of Stink
Using Stink
- The main meaning on this page is: To have a strong bad smell. | To be greatly inferior; to perform badly. | To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin.
- Useful related words include: reek, smell, stink up, be.
- In the example corpus, stink often appears in combinations such as: the stink, stink of, stink and.
Context around Stink
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 4 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stink
- In this selection, "stink" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, kind, big, pats, off, eye and bugs stand out and add context to how "stink" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a big stink about a and a sewage stink sweeps over. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stink" sits close to words such as acadia, ae and aes, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stink
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Instead of being kind, Stink plays pranks. (7 words)
Wash the Snyder stink off the team and start anew. (10 words)
Why is a Namibian fishing scandal raising a stink in Europe? (11 words)
For everyone out there who needs a hunk-a hunk-a burning comedy — I’m not sure why it’s burning, either, but it does stink — look no further than what I can only assume will be the greatest TV show to ever exist. (44 words)
The UWU on Monday posted a video to X, formerly Twitter, accusing Inghams of placing tubs of rotting chicken guts next to where striking workers were congregating in an attempt to stink them out. (34 words)
A council expert has kicked up a stink over proposals which could lead to the removal of trees leading into a new sewage treatment works on the banks of a south Shropshire river. (33 words)
When everyone says you stink, the tape shows that you stink and you’ve been cut by teams that need offensive line help, what does that say Ereck? (28 words)
Did you think Americans would forget the stink of the 30,000+ documented lies he told America and the world while he was president? (24 words)
Do you have stink bugs in and near your house in the fall? (13 words)
Example sentences (20)
When everyone says you stink, the tape shows that you stink and you’ve been cut by teams that need offensive line help, what does that say Ereck?
A council expert has kicked up a stink over proposals which could lead to the removal of trees leading into a new sewage treatment works on the banks of a south Shropshire river.
Did you think Americans would forget the stink of the 30,000+ documented lies he told America and the world while he was president?
Do you have stink bugs in and near your house in the fall?
Everybody needs to take a breath, leave the basement and blow the stink off.
For everyone out there who needs a hunk-a hunk-a burning comedy — I’m not sure why it’s burning, either, but it does stink — look no further than what I can only assume will be the greatest TV show to ever exist.
French bulldog Marnie is two, from Wiltshire, and a master of the ‘stink eye’.
Instead of being kind, Stink plays pranks.
I think most of these folks will go ahead and try to pretend that they didn’t make a big stink about a Day Of Hate that never materialized, but not ‘ol Jeff.
Judge later claimed that he was giving his dugout the stink eye to and stop yelling at the umpire.
Mixing refineries and mass dairies, because the towns didn't stink enough just just one.
My Pats stink…and they could beat either of the teams I saw play last night.
Of course striking in the Summer certainly makes a stink-on purpose.
Residents are being forced indoors on sunny days, and windows shut hastily as a sewage stink sweeps over some Queenstown properties.
Some people are all in, for others it consistently produces a stink face, and still others travel the road from having to get used to it to actively enjoying it.
Soon it is expected to bloom — and let off quite a stink.
The only condition was that anyone taking him up on the offer "didn't stink".
The UWU on Monday posted a video to X, formerly Twitter, accusing Inghams of placing tubs of rotting chicken guts next to where striking workers were congregating in an attempt to stink them out.
Wash the Snyder stink off the team and start anew.
Why is a Namibian fishing scandal raising a stink in Europe?
Common combinations with stink
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the stink 14×
- stink of 9×
- stink and 7×
- to stink 7×
- of stink 5×
- up stink 5×
- stink about 5×
- stink bugs 4×
- marmorated stink 4×
- stink bug 4×