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- noun Plural form of
stench .
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Examples
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You belong with the oxen and the drudges, in dirty surroundings among smells and stenches.
Chapter 12 2010
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Starting from a bridge over a vast open cesspool of human wastes, Brinda is making our path through what feel like opposites: tight-knit anarchy, foul stenches, brilliant rainbows of paint and fabric, acres of rubble next to dense clusters of shanties next to hand-crafted houses being rewired and gaudily repainted and redecorated, as we pass, by the artisan-squatters who live here.
Christopher Lydon: Walking the Slum Side of Bangalore (AUDIO) 2010
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Believe me, I know which one hasn't washed his balls, I can smell pissy gussets and shitty backsides whose faint stenches don't carry to your nose, farts smell extra bad.
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The noise went way down, the glare ceased, the stench of sulfur was supplanted by other stenches.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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The noise went way down, the glare ceased, the stench of sulfur was supplanted by other stenches.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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The noise went way down, the glare ceased, the stench of sulfur was supplanted by other stenches.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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The stenches are as essential to perfumers 'palate as rose and citrus scents, Mr. Laudamiel said.
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I have been greeted by enough stenches on removing dressings from the feet of diabetic patients to know whether someone is going to need intravenous or oral antibiotics.
Medpundit 2006
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I have been greeted by enough stenches on removing dressings from the feet of diabetic patients to know whether someone is going to need intravenous or oral antibiotics.
Archive 2006-02-01 2006
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Gawker has compiled an interactive NYC subway map showing the stenches of each station, as reported by readers.
Boing Boing: September 24, 2006 - September 30, 2006 Archives 2006
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