Sentence examples for stinking dog from inspiring English sources

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Yellow-brown and sitting on the city like a stinking dog.

They'd got it cheap because there was a sitting tenant next door, in the form of a stinking dog lady, and, having got it cheap, the new owners had a shot at evicting her.

The novel translated as The Silent Cry (1967), deemed by the Nobel committee to be his masterpiece, opens with the narrator festering in a muddy pit, a stinking dog in his arms, after his idiot son has been institutionalised and a friend has hanged himself naked.

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In his bestselling book The Mind of South Africa, veteran journalist Allister Sparks quotes Van Riebeeck referring to the local Khoisan people as "dull, stupid and odorous" and as "black stinking dogs".

Unable to realise this ambitious project, he instead decided to plant a bitter almond hedge to keep the "black stinking dogs" out of his settlement, accompanied by brambles and thorny bushes designed to ward off this "savage set, living without conscience".

And when they had stripped off his clothes, The dirty Jews, the stinking dogs, They inflicted many wounds on him With daggers and knives And then, still in the same place, caused All of the blood to flow from his body And collected this blood in a vessel.

The most dislikable juror is a racist, anti-Semitic cab driver (Sergey Garmash) who despises all non-Russians and dismisses the accused young man as "a stinking Chechen dog".

And can you neglect to clean up after cats or dogs without stinking up the place?

He was less and less charmed by the singsong of the bookies, the pointless silks of the trainers, the false lights, and the sharp dogs — all that stinking fuss in the sweet evenings of spring.

With my mom, I apologized for not burying the box of fish, but the dog was still there, stinking up the neighborhood.

Stinking cesspool?

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