What is "stank"

Usage examples of "stank".

Danforth and I saw the freshly glistening and reflectively iridescent black slime which clung thickly to those headless bodies and stank obscenely with that new, unknown odor whose cause only a diseased fancy could envisage--clung to those bodies and sparkled less voluminously on a smooth part of the accursedly resculptured wall in a series of grouped dots--we understood the quality of cosmic fear to its uttermost depths.

The man smelled, They all smelled, he thought--sweat, dirt But Bonner stank.

Others had entered the hall whilst the two men were speakinga gaggle of clan maids wheeling a laundry barrow and two ancient oasters from the brewhouse who stank of yeastand all eased back against the walls, sensing the tension in the entryway as livestock sensed a storm.

The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.

Only farmers lived in the high, rocky meadows between Dacia and Serre, above their animals in small cottages that stank and whistled in the howling winds.

The apartment stank, the place was virtually unfurnished and roaches roamed the floor boldlyeven now, in the diffuse noon light bleeding in through the greasy windows.

But Bollo, who had gone out and broken the thick corded ice of the well, informed me it stank, not fit to drink.

Zorana Shield and Clive Elkwood believed firmly that everything that stank of Old World sorcery should be destroyed.

Robin and I had gone with him to the art museum and he had looked at the pictures the way someone who understands pictures does, talking about how much he liked the Ashcan painters, why Fauvism stank because of the vulgar colors.

He slipped out back to the alley where there was a row of privies lined up like doll houses, save they were nailed together out of odds and ends and stank like open sewers.

The ship was small, crowded, and stank of fish, and Tobas had doubts about its seaworthiness.

It stank of oil and metal, industrial cleansers and decaying junk food.

The place stank of retting vats and dyestuffs, and one could not pass through the castle without sneez-i ng from dust and fluff and getting covered with lint and fuz2 and down.

Most of these victims were long dead and stank, but one or two still twitched or groaned pitifully.

Whenever they heard them rehearsing, they made snide remarks, sniggered loudly, and declared that the Herons stank to high heaven.