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Stinking is an English word with synonyms like stinky or smelly. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Stinking | Stink | Stinks | Stinker | Stinkers

Stinking meaning

  1. Having a pungent smell.
  2. Very bad and undesirable.
  3. Very drunk.

Synonyms of Stinking

stinky smelly noisome funky foul-smelling foul foetid fetid bad shitty rotten lousy crappy icky ill-scented

Related words

Other words often associated with Stinking or its synonyms:

malodorous filthy dirty nasty awful unsound loathsome unfavourable painful offensive fresh sorry

Using Stinking

  • The main meaning on this page is: Having a pungent smell. | Very bad and undesirable. | Very drunk.
  • Useful related words include: stinky, smelly, noisome, funky.
  • In the example corpus, stinking often appears in combinations such as: the stinking, stinking of, stinking up.

Context around Stinking

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 21.4 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations

Often before:

plan 1× water 1× voters 1× dead 1×

Often after:

waste 1× city 1× writers 1× half 1× thinking 1× henbane 1× badges 1× trench 1× mouths 1× smell 1×

Sentence patterns with Stinking

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

and a stinking smell remained 1× area was stinking of something 1× brackish water stinking of dead 1× came back stinking and covered 1× end up stinking the river 1× his voters stinking mouths his 1× in a stinking trench warfare 1× in your stinking half washed 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a broad majority 1× a dog walker 1× cllr jan jones 1× for many years 1× on an almost 1× stinking thinking is 1×

Common sentence endings:

aligned and independent 1× an academy award 1× crazies fentanyl addicts 1× feel less pain 1× first world war 1× in the air 1×

Words around Stinking

Just before it in the word index:

stinkin 9 stinkeye 4 stinkers 9 stinker 25 stink 125 stingy 77

Just after it in the word index:

stinko 3 stinkpot 4 stinks 52 stinky 65 stinner 2 stinnett 14

Similar in corpus frequency:

accrington 80 airfoil 80 airstrip 80 anemia 80 antigonish 80 arista 80

Corpus analysis for Stinking

  • In this selection, "stinking" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, plan, water, voters, waste, city and writers stand out and add context to how "stinking" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and a stinking smell remained and area was stinking of something. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "stinking" sits close to words such as accrington, airfoil and airstrip, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with stinking

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

More like stinking writers. (4 words)

The water was stinking. (4 words)

We don't need no stinking badges! (7 words)

Longer example sentences

So you’re going to be standing there in your stinking, half-washed clothes, looking into your refrigerator and seeing your spoiled meat and melted ice cream, courtesy of your green fridge that doesn’t keep anything cold. (38 words)

We grabbed a shit-ton of Hochelaga alley dirt, junk, slutch and dumped it on our saloon floor, made a concoction of 'fake' blood and proceeded to surgically etch the logo on this stinking putrid pile. (36 words)

What was once an extensive marshes network has shrunk today to a few isolated ponds of stagnating brackish water, stinking of dead fish and highly polluted, sitting amid large swatches of desert landscape. (33 words)

Question examples

What’s worse than a dead loser, comparable to a long-dead stinking corpse, and worthy of an Academy Award? (20 words)

Exclamation examples

We don't need no stinking badges! (7 words)

Example sentences (20)

A broad majority of people have also expressed support for strikes that have disrupted schools, public and rubbish collection, burying the streets of Paris under piles of stinking waste.

A DOG walker took to social media after her dog came back 'stinking and covered in diesel' when playing near the gas terminal at Rampside.

As for the Proles, they’ll be riding on stinking city buses ~ as I mentioned ~ with the crazies & fentanyl addicts.

Cllr Jan Jones, who represents Ynysddu, said the area was “stinking” of something similar to sulphur.

More like stinking writers.

She was really stinking up the joint,” one wrote.

So you’re going to be standing there in your stinking, half-washed clothes, looking into your refrigerator and seeing your spoiled meat and melted ice cream, courtesy of your green fridge that doesn’t keep anything cold.

Stinking thinking is temporal discounting — we value the immediate far more than the future.

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The plan "stinking henbane" would have bee infused with tea or alcohol to make them feel less pain.

The water was stinking.

We don't need no stinking badges!

What was once an extensive marshes network has shrunk today to a few isolated ponds of stagnating brackish water, stinking of dead fish and highly polluted, sitting amid large swatches of desert landscape.

And here we are, stuck in a stinking trench-warfare brawl which has already lasted half as long as the First World War.

On an almost weekly basis, new voice recordings swirl around Hungarian media exposing Magyar for various controversies: his voters “stinking mouths,” his MEP candidates, or at journalists — both Fidesz-aligned and independent.

The farmer then found out that almost one hectare of the vegetation along the boundary was visibly killed and a stinking smell remained in the air.

We grabbed a shit-ton of Hochelaga alley dirt, junk, slutch and dumped it on our saloon floor, made a concoction of 'fake' blood and proceeded to surgically etch the logo on this stinking putrid pile.

What’s worse than a dead loser, comparable to a long-dead stinking corpse, and worthy of an Academy Award?

Even if I shower, I will be stinking in a couple of hours if I don't include antiperspirant/deodorant in my post-shower routine.

Even if they can, there are too many krathongs for the fish to eat and they just end up stinking the river.

FOR many years, the government has misled Zimbabweans into believing that the stinking corruption and mismanagement that has grounded State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) is under control.

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Common combinations with stinking

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "stinking" in a sentence?
An example: "A broad majority of people have also expressed support for strikes that have disrupted schools, public and rubbish collection, burying the streets of Paris under piles of stinking waste." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "stinking" from authentic English texts.
What does "stinking" mean?
Stinking means: Having a pungent smell.
What are synonyms of "stinking"?
Common synonyms of "stinking" include: stinky, smelly, noisome, funky, foul-smelling, foul, foetid, fetid. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "stinking" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "stinking", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.