Sentence examples for he stank of from inspiring English sources
Those dogs could tell and probably anybody else, too: he stank of panic.
He stank of sausage and raw spirit, and it was like being abruptly swallowed up by all of Russia.
"He was fat and smelly and he stank of stale sweat and whisky and incense," she said.
"He stank of alcohol and cigarettes," Ms. Bush writes, in one typical passage, describing how Ana was molested by her grandmother's boyfriend.
He wore a camel-hair coat, and he'd say things like, 'Be a good boy and go and get your uncle's Panatellas.' He stank of fags, he drank like a fish, and I thought he was fantastic.
He stunk of the grog and dirt and sweat.
(As Mermin, she tells Silver he stinks of failure; as his wife, she speaks more than once of Anne as her rival and Silver's mistress).
He stunk of booze and it was only 9 AM.
Furthermore, he stank -- of sweat, of urine, of who knew what.
Unlike the dead officer in The Greatcoat, he is far from a romantic figure, and he stinks vividly of trench mud – "thick, almost oily, full of shit and rotten flesh, cordite and chloride of lime".
