Sentence examples for as a stink from inspiring English sources

As for German nationalism, he regarded it, at least in the twenties, mainly as a stink up the nose, a matter of lies and nature hikes and losers trying to gain power.

But this year, like dozens of other previously apolitical Americans, the cheerful father of 10 looked at the Congressional candidate arena and got to thinking, "Hey, why not me?" Running as a Republican with little money in a district controlled by Democrats for decades, Mr. Schilling was initially received about as warmly as a stink bug.

Trying to promote a movie colorfully described by one critic as "a stink bucket of disappointment" while navigating the media fallout from your highly public split is a position even Lex Luthor wouldn't subject his most formidable foe to.

It's easy to see why Samsung didn't make quite as big a stink about the new headset.

Eager to kick up as big a stink as possible, they have even filed a criminal money-laundering complaint against unknown individuals at the BIS.

Published in a couple of weeks, it's the second book by Hanna Rosin, a senior editor at Atlantic magazine, and everyone involved obviously wants to kick up as big a stink as possible.

And don't look to the man himself for clues on where the poems come from: he once said that writing a poem is ""like taking a shit, you smell it and then flush it away... writing is all about leaving behind as much a stink as possible".

At the very least that will cause a bit of a stink, as Casey, Harrington and Donald could have all qualified by right here, if they had chosen to place the Ryder race above the dollar chase.

As far as stink bug elimination methods go, this is probably the closest to a "stink free" option since the bugs are killed relatively quickly.

Theatre-owners created a stink as no interval meant no bar profits.

When informed of the massacre of Italian prisoners at Biscari by troops under his command, Patton wrote in his diary, "I told Bradley that it was probably an exaggeration, but in any case to tell the officer to certify that the dead men were snipers or had attempted to escape or something, as it would make a stink in the press and also would make the civilians mad.