How to Use stinking in a Sentence

stinking

adjective

• Four plays, 76 yards, in 25 stinking seconds.
  — David Aldridge, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
• For this argument Thomasine was jailed—stuffed into a damp, stinking, deadly stone cell crawling with rats and lice—to force her to change her beliefs.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
• America’s political landscape has become a stinking mess.
  — Mary Ellen Klas, Boston Herald, 1 June 2026
• Not the good, high-altitude ozone that shields us from dangerous UV light, but bad ozone, hovering right above ground level — stinking, brownish, grayish photochemical smog.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
• Their solution to a stinking run was, comically, to rely on less than 23 per cent of possession and pick Madrid off with a classy volley from Martin Satriano, below.
  — Phil Hay, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026