Voorbeelden van stank

• He did some astonishing demonstrations in spite of his age, accompanying them with comments on the stylish taste of the aristocrats, and adding that 'the common people stank'.

• Her airless room had no windows, it stank of the insecticide that was used in a losing battle to control the roaches, and its ceiling was crisscrossed with sweating pipes.

• Proponents of the dual mechanism theory point out that irregular inflections are typically restricted either to single words (go-went) or to small clusters of phonologically similar words (sink-sank, drink-drank, stink-stank).

• The reason why the information service was bad, why it stank, was that every time they looked at it they cut it.

• The next year they said that the information service stank, and they recommended that it should be got rid of.

• They applied heavy spices and heavy perfumes to conceal the fact that their whole bodies stank.

• The whole of the women's compound was filthy and it stank.

• The house stank of cigarettes, 13-year-olds were becoming chain smokers and 14-year-old girls were encouraged to be on the pill.

• He told the people there the older a thing was the more it stank.

• They stank from two points of view: first, the furniture was shoddy and, second, the design was rotten.

• The vessels were in a terrible condition and stank to high heaven.

• To my surprise and dislike, the perspiration on my knees and the extremities of all my limbs simply stank of nicotine, as badly as a third-class smoking carriage.

• To me, the declaration stank of a confession.

• The atmosphere stank of unprincipled intrigue and conspiracy.

• I should say it stank of it.