STENCH in a Sentence

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For STENCH, below is one of 13 sentences:
So vividly did he recall that hospital stench of dead flesh that he looked round to see where the smell came from.

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 Meanings and Examples of STENCH
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stench
 n.  strong, foul odor; stink; foul quality; offensive odor
Classic Sentence:
1  I execrate these vampires who are sucking the lifeblood of the men who follow Robert Lee--these men who are making the very name of blockader a stench in the nostrils of all patriotic men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  The smell of sweat, of blood, of unwashed bodies, of excrement rose up in waves of blistering heat until the fetid stench almost nauseated her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  Here came the entrails, to be scraped and washed clean for sausage casings; men and women worked here in the midst of a sickening stench, which caused the visitors to hasten by, gasping.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  The stench was almost overpowering, but to Jurgis it was nothing.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  In summer the stench of the warm lard would be nauseating, and in winter the cans would all but freeze to his naked little fingers in the unheated cellar.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
6  So he came at last to the stockyards, to the black volcanoes of smoke and the lowing cattle and the stench.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
7  His soaked clothing began to steam, and the horrible stench of fertilizer to fill the room.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
8  He had gotten used to being a master of men; and because of the stifling heat and the stench, and the fact that he was a "scab" and knew it and despised himself.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
9  And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  Imagine all this, and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
11  And when the wind was that way, which was often, the house was full of the stench of this sulphurous combustion of the earth's excrement.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
12  So vividly did he recall that hospital stench of dead flesh that he looked round to see where the smell came from.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XXI
Example Sentence:
1  Also, on days when the tides and wind are just right, the stench is overpowering.