How To Use Skunk In A Sentence

Was it his son's fault for smoking marijuana and skunk? The Times Literary Supplement
The exact particulars of the similarity never came to light, but apparently the lady had, in a fit of high-minded inadvertence, had gone through the ceremony of marriage with, one quotes the unpublished discourse of Mr. Butteridge — “a white-livered skunk,” and this zoological aberration did in some legal and vexatious manner mar her social happines. The War in the Air
If you've got one of its skunky previous DVD editions, it's time to turn that turkey into a Christmas tree ornament and take a step up in quality.
He was addicted to a stronger strain of skunk cannabis but demand for it won't disappear if marijuana is legalised. Times, Sunday Times
Our second annual spring trip to the Upper Catch and Release Area of the Miller's River, my father caught this nice brown trout, and caught flak from the elitists because he was using the fly rod with a spinning reel and rooster tail and catching fish, while the elitist fly fishers were getting skunked all morning. Field & Stream

Then old Tarwater's heart uprose again as the air was rent by a cyclone of profanity, from the midst of which crackled sentences like: - Dirty skunks! ... LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES
Yet, it is its foul odor, often described as the reek of rotten eggs or hydrogen sulfide, that puts the "skunk" into the creature's name. Valdosta Daily Times Homepage
Our light-fingered fig climber commits acts of larceny while the crumb-laden colossus eats his weight in skunk soup and then falls into narcolepsy.
I had a momentary image - very clear, very politically incorrect, and very likely brought on by Pam's mention of the cartoon books I'd once drawn for a little sick girl - of a large talking skunk in a beret, Monsieur PepÃ© Le Pew, strutting around my daughter's pension (if that was the word for a bedsitter-type apartment in Paris) with wavy aroma lines rising from his white-striped back. Duma Key
A farmer looking through the fields before harvesting his crop sees rabbits, opossums, mice, rats, birds, foxes, skunks and snakes.
I'm wondering which I like least, the perfume our visitor left or the one your old skunkweed made. With Trapper Jim in the North Woods
This is their idea of a holiday and they've paid $1, 800 U.S. to scour these rocks for scat from raccoons, pygmy skunks, ocelots, coyotes and jaguars.
Raccoon removal squirrel control Fredericksburg, Stafford, Virginia, and wildlife snake Skunk Valley pest control services experts bats, squirrels, mice, and remove the raccoons.
And is there a clear difference between the effects of legacy marijuana and skunk? Times, Sunday Times
The cameras never detected some species that are believed to still exist in the area, such as black bears, long-tailed weasels, ringtails, badgers, and spotted skunks.
I eventually found them in a bar, both as drunk as skunks.
It's a South American species, Xanthosoma robustum, that's related to the dead-horse arum, philodendron, and skunk cabbage.
There are 11 species of skunks, which are divided into four genera: Mephitis (hooded and striped skunks, two species), Spilogale (spotted skunks, two species), Mydaus (stink badgers, two species), and Conepatus (hog-nosed skunks, five species). Ferret frenzy « knitnut.net
Everyone was trying to picture the skunk straining to get his tongue through the hole in the top of that cocoa box. Christianity Today
As I dropped off my laundry I could smell the sweet skunky odor rising out of my pants pocket, yikes!
They do, however, both belong to the same Mustelidae family which also encompasses badgers, skunks and otters, and that's close enough for us.
Amis admonished readers to see these symptoms for what they are: “You have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what” a skunk you are, “you have not come at last to see life as it really is.” Your Brain Is Going to Fall Out of Your Head - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
McCain smells like a rose, and Obama stinks, or, it's all Obama's fault, or, somehow, the skunk, an unnamed reptile, and Obama have had a freindship in the past and the skunk is Wildlife's gift to terrorism. Politico on Press Bias - Swampland - TIME.com
The spray from a skunk will not cause permanent blindness.
In the Middle East, the Israeli Defense Force has been "skunking" the borders of the Palestinian territories for years.
Asparagus contains a sulphur containing compound called mercaptan, and some individuals have an enzyme that quickly breaks down the mercaptan into byproducts which are also found in rotten eggs, skunk spray, onions and garlic.
I don't like skunky beer, but I don't allow that to color my opinion of the Canadians.
No cuckoos in Oberlin -- at least none that I have heard - although I did encounter a skunk who was drowsing under my car in the old shed that doubles as a garage behind my house ... you should have seen me run the other way as he woke up!!! Jean's Knitting
He's a wily, nefarious skunk, is what he is, gang.
The weasel family includes such colourful characters as otters, wolverines, skunks, minks and badgers.
The thought of a bar on a Saturday night was as appealing as a dead skunk.
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But my dog needs to work off lead, and there are as many skunks mink, too in my hawking fields as in the park: A mustelid meet-up is inevitable. Archive 2006-07-01
The weasel family includes such colourful characters as otters, wolverines, skunks, minks and badgers.
I find no fault with any of the post’s here only one little coment, Roger…I think Mink are of the mustelidae family, that is weasels, ermin, ferrits, or muskiloid sp stinky type’s like skunk…. Think Progress » Judge reinstates rule banning roads in national forests.
Raccoons, civets, jackals, badgers, skunks, and bears also eat fruit, honey, seeds, roots, and other plant foods.
Then again, does the smell of a skunk's spray necessarily follow the skunk out of the room?
And in recent times, the medical applications of this venerable herb known severally as grass, weed, pot, cannabis, dope, jay, skunk, kif, or ganja have been documented by reputable professionals.
How was I gonna evict a skunk from the bedroom 12 hours before flight time? A Tranquil Life At Casa Buena Vista
American sloth W 1883 OW mephitine skunk W soricine shrew 1781 - moschine musk deer c1878 OW OW talpine mole 1860 OW musteline weasel, mink tapirine tapir VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
Everyone was trying to picture the skunk straining to get his tongue through the hole in the top of that cocoa box. Christianity Today
It's like someone threw a rotten egg into a bottle of spoiled milk and skunky beer.
You might also hear the names Aunt Mary, skunk, boom, gangster, kif or ganja.
But suppose your friend wanted to show up for the movie drunk as a skunk, or wearing a rebel flag on her jacket, or she planned to hand out religious tracts during the show?
Was it his son's fault for smoking marijuana and skunk? The Times Literary Supplement
Because of the scarcity of water and succulent vegetation in the desert, rural gardeners often find everything from skunks to javelina to coyotes nibbling at their crops.
I'd smelled that malodor of skunk in the air, just a hint of it, around suppertime. Archive 2009-10-01
You could describe Brit as spunky, but never skunky.
I'm stoned and now use stronger skunk. The Sun
Outside there would be the pervasive odor of skunk.
The worst is walking in a field with a headlamp only shining a few feet in front of you and all of a sudden a skunk pops into view. What is your greatest fear while in the woods?
Raccoons, civets, jackals, badgers, skunks, and bears also eat fruit, honey, seeds, roots, and other plant foods.
He is settled in a way that he was not when he burst on to the scene with a skunk haircut and a point to prove. Times, Sunday Times
This was one of the largest skunk cannabis factories ever discovered in mainland UK.
In this neighborhood, the gardens consisted of thistle and skunkweed, and the paintings were done with spray cans. BAD MEDICINE
If not treated, the skunk stink stuck to a dog cannot only end a hunt but can also lose you your place in a motel room and can cause real problems back home for a housedog or even a dog that lives outside in a kennel. Undefined
*gigglolz* othx we finks hims in teh crawl spaec under teh kitchen an teh smells sumtymes coms tru teh heetin bents… hims usually predy gud liddle skunky but ebery so often…. HEHEHEHE - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
The skunk releases a pungent smell as a means of protection.
Alternatively, they may be used to signal to predators, the classic example being aposematic coloration in species that have noxious defenses, such as skunks.
They can be shot or trapped or otherwise killed as a nuisance animal, like gophers, skunks or weasels, Holsten said.
Broad-leaved arrowhead and lizard's tail are found where the water is deepest, while skunk cabbage, with its huge leaves, lines the perimeter of the fen.
The little guy was hungry, so they called the skunk whisperer, I guess. CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2009
I'd suffered one before on Kedge-Lockaby when I fell off my sub's flybridge, drunk as a skunk. Sagittarius Whorl
The intrapreneurial story of Scott Gatz, a Yahoo product manager and a skunkworks RSS project shipped Jan 04: Early on, people in the company had said “you really ought to look at RSS”. Archive 2006-07-01
A dog rabies is very different from a skunk rabies virus," Rupprecht said. U.S. Now Free of Canine Rabies Virus | Impact Lab
We see him, at one point, sitting in a ramshackle hotel room in New Harmony, Ind., as his men stuff an American skunk for shipment back to his castle on the Rhine. From the Rhine to the Wild West
I suppose you only read Kant in the original German wearing lederhosen and stuffing high grade skunk into your meerschaum. Perils of pop philosophy
All kinds of critters like to dine on poultry, including raccoons, skunks, opossums, weasels, foxes, coyotes, dogs and feral cats.
After that, we went to play a round of pool so that I could redeem myself, and we both thought for a bit that I was going to skunk him.
There is only a dead skunk where water on road would be.
These include the shrews, some moles, some bats, the striped skunk, the pinniped carnivores, toothed whales, the aardvark, and murid rodents.
I'd smelled that malodor of skunk in the air, just a hint of it, around suppertime. The Mondays: Sometimes the Muse Is In the Bushes
She laughed and laughed while father told her about the time he got sprayed by a skunk.
The former, from a Massachuset Indian word, referred to Poke (- weed) n. 3; the latter, probably derived from a Delaware Indian term, was a name for skunkweed. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 3
You might also hear the names Aunt Mary, skunk, boom, gangster, kif or ganja.
‘It's difficult to see this because it fills me with grief,’ he said, indicating the cutover valley that provides habitat for beaver, elk, deer, mountain lion, lynx, skunk, bobcat, salmon, as well as human beings.
Like that amorous skunk Pepé Le Pew, you're determined to make a luscious someone yours, even if she thinks you're stinky.
Someone asked me for two pounds, in exchange for which he would provide me with a bit of skunk.
By then the humidity had cooled, we'd lay in the skunkweed, near the burning barrel and stare up at the stars. Sense of place
Striped skunks use scent marking to communicate presence and reproductive state to other skunks.
. He was angry, now, sore as a skunk and with enough whisky inside him to keep Jim Beam going for ten years or so.
Lions encounter woolly mammoths, a jaguar attacks a bone-plated glyptodont, and a sabre-toothed cat comes off somewhat worse for wear following a confrontation with a humble skunk.
A clement breeze stirred the smell of sage, skunkweed, and hot dirt. No Mercy
I emphasize that I have no wish to come across here as the skunk at the process improvement garden party.
Domestic dogs and cats can pick up the infection if exposed to wild animals with the disease such as foxes, wolves, jackals, skunks, mongooses, raccoons and bats.
And in recent times, the medical applications of this venerable herb known severally as grass, weed, pot, cannabis, dope, jay, skunk, kif, or ganja have been documented by reputable professionals.
I'm stoned and now use stronger skunk. The Sun
He said: 'That skunk he smoked warped his mind. The Sun
A ripe minty, skunky odor exudes from his velvety dappled coat. Houston Chronicle
I tie a skunk fly up with yellow chenille and it works very well. What Gets Your Smallies Going?
He had few friends and smoked joint after joint of strong skunk cannabis alone in his bedroom. The Sun
Maybe we should mount that skunk defence after all. Times, Sunday Times
I also need to work up another piece for "Detective Mac" involving smoky saxophones (it's all the skunkweed, you know.) It's just another game of Confuse-A-Cat really
What I think we need more with NASA and with the Pentagon is less of this micro-managing, which adds hugely to costs, and have a fundamental reform of contracting where you say what your goals are with a vehicle or a weapons system, and then put it in what they call skunk works, where you say get the job done, we're not going to micro - manage you. CNN Transcript Jan 26, 2000
Some of the mammals include the Patagonian Mara (Dolichotis patagonum), the Southern Viscacha (Lagidium viscacia), the Wolffsohn's Viscacha (Lagidium wolffsohni), the Patagonian Weasel (Lyncodon patagonicusi), the Humboldt's Hog-nosed Skunk (Conepatus humboldti), the puma (Felis concolor), the Falkland Island wolf (Dusicyon australis), the Guanaco (Lama guanicoe). Patagonian grasslands
No sand shifting beneath me, but sharp rocks and dirt with the faint odor of skunkweed. No Mercy
We're surrounded by tussock sedge, alder, jewelweed, skunk cabbage and swamp rose.
A bear was an occasional amusement; a wapiti was a constant necessity; but the only wild animal dangerous to man was a rattle-snake or a skunk. Failure (1871)
He goes behind the fields and starts to trap opossums, skunks, rabbits, and squirrels.
Maybe we should mount that skunk defence after all. Times, Sunday Times
He said: 'That skunk he smoked warped his mind. The Sun
It's not unusual at all to see snakes, groundhogs, skunks, fox, and numerous other creatures.
I got some arranging to do and we don't want that skunk to know we smell him yet.
I smoke high quality hybrid cannabis like skunk, northern lights and purple haze.
Officers entered the room and discovered a small quantity of skunk in a plastic bag, in Crook's jacket pocket, which was hung over a chair.
If weather skunked our 14-day road trip, we would at least hit the most spectacular ski area in Canada.
I emphasize that I have no wish to come across here as the skunk at the process improvement garden party.
Stronger joints, particularly where skunk is used, may have more powerful effects. Times, Sunday Times
I've got some beer we've got to finish before it goes skunky.
Other species of interest are the guanaco Lama guanicoe, Argentine grey fox Duscicyon griseus and Austral hog-nosed skunk Conepatus humboldti. Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina
We can feature hilarious armies of skunks sneaking into an SUV, and birds that dive-bomb and defecate everywhere. 'Furry Vengeance': Coarse family film is a slapstick stinker
She noticed several years ago that drawing on strong Jamaican skunk suddenly and temporarily enabled her to see things clearly.
How could you cheat your own children, you skunk!
The mean, crawlin 'skunk!" the pocket-miner gritted in his blankets. CHAPTER 11
Burrows are also often shared with other mammals such as rabbits, skunks and possums.
After their arrest eight days later, they said they had taken cocaine, cannabis skunk and alcohol before the robbery.
Predators, such as coyotes, swift foxes, and skunks, are a major problem for ground nesting birds.
Mount Rainier National Park had lost the lynx, the fisher a small predator similar to a weasel, and the striped skunk. The Song of The Dodo
the skunk's intense acrid odor
The weasel family includes such colourful characters as otters, wolverines, skunks, minks and badgers.
Your bravado was fuelled by skunk cannabis and cheap drink. The Sun
I smoked skunk from morning till night. Times, Sunday Times
They introduced a new kind of cannabis class A skunk.
At birth, baby striped skunks are blind, deaf, and extremely immature.
I couldn't help but laugh when they were showing that clip of Bruha talking away and the poor skunk is walking around in circles STILL with that jar on its head. The Skunk Whisperer
Anyone who has encountered a skunk will know that before it fires its stinking spray it issues clear warnings of its intentions.
Epazote, which is pronounced "eh-pah-zoe-teh" is a great staple in Mexico, but most people north pull this out of their garden because it is thought of as "skunkweed" unaware of the culinary value it Undefined
Striped skunks sometimes eat crops and raid chicken pens, though this is rare.
There are 112 mammal species recorded here. including pacas (Agouti paca) and agoutis (Dasyprocta punctata), porcupines (Coendou prehensilis), spiny rats (Proechimys longicaudatus and Mesomys hispidus), hog-nosed skunks (Conepatus semistriatus), and peccaries (Tayassu pecari and T. tajacu, both locally extinct). Maranhão Babaçu forests
For example, during the development and service period of the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, engineers working for Lockheed Corporation at the Skunk Works used the term unobtainium as a dysphemism for titanium. Two New Extended Clips from AVATAR – Collider.com
It is singular that at a moment when the soil is generally frost-bound, any plant should find out that spring is at hand; but toward the close of February, or beginning of March, the skunk-cabbage makes a good guess at the time of the year, and comes up in marshy spots, on the banks of ponds and streams. Rural Hours
All mustelids have well-developed anal glands; these are potent weapons of defense in some species such as skunks.
The critter's black-and-white fur has led to some biologists to suggest it deters predators by resembling the smelly, skunk-like striped polecat, or zorilla, but it is "probably too poor a copy," says the study, to truly fool them. USATODAY.com News
A former fugitive accused of bankrolling a massive skunk cannabis factory at an airfield near Selby has pleaded guilty to being concerned in the production of cannabis.
It seemed it didn't take much to get his friend drunk as a skunk, and though he'd never actually seen her tipsy before, the stories about her while she was intoxicated were legendary.
The principal function of the fence was to keep animals out, particularly rabbits, but also skunks, raccoons, and groundhogs, all notorious crop destroyers.
When raccoons, coatis, foxes, coyotes, skunks, or bears bit the models, they left tooth marks in the plasticine.
One of those compounds is called methyl mercaptan, which is the same chemical which gives a skunk its defensive smell. Documenting Reality
a skunk's aposematic coloration
The other side of Oak Beck is a damp patch of sweet and sour - wild garlic, and growing through it, naturalised skunk cabbages that resemble giant lords and ladies but with a bright yellow sheath around the spike.
‘It's some of the best skunk around - it'll blow your head off,’ he said.
I eventually found them in a bar, both as drunk as skunks.
When I was a youth and trapping raccoon, fox and mink I caught so many skunks I had to quit because people were starting to call me "stinky" and had to live in the milk barn. A skunk in the trap
Because of their offensive odor, skunks are rarely preyed on by mammalian predators.
Now, Cappin, what did you ever see in that blasted longshanks, Oakenberg, -- that called himself a doctor -- a fellow that sickened and killed more good fellows with his yarbs and poultices than he'll ever meet in heaven, -- what did you see in that skunk of a fellow to make you do for him what you did? The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc.
Through time, a variety of animals will burrow into it and use it for nesting - animals like skunks, squirrels and small rodents.
I eventually found them in a bar, both as drunk as skunks.
The four people arrested are currently being questioned on suspicion of being concerned in the production of ‘skunk’ cannabis, a controlled drug.
Some talk as if you were the skunk at the garden party.
The emergency is called skunk. Times, Sunday Times
Plants do a great job of looking very phallic at this time of year, none more so than the skunk arums, in this case Lysichiton camtschatcense.
Used to use skunk scent as a cover until someone pointed out that skunks don't "unload" unless threatened and that's an alarm to the deer. When would you use the doe pea (sorry i forgot the fancy name for it so it doesnt sound gross) when deer hunting all the time?
Along the escarpments, redberry junipers grow on the rimrock and cliff faces, along with skunkbush sumac, ephedra, mountain mahogany, plum, grape, and clematis. Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
So grab a cuppa, a coldie, a JD or even some hair of the skunk.
The emergency is called skunk. Times, Sunday Times
There was, it turned out, a dead, bloated skunk trapped just beneath one of the storm sewer grates in the alley next to our house.
I have more or less come to the conclusion that the only way an otherwise conventional narrative (and Skunk is, depite its unconventional subject and eccentric characters, essentially a narrative-driven novel, without much in the way of purely formal experimentation) can succeed, post-modernism and post-postmodernism, is through first-person narrative. Point of View in Fiction
And I especially like how "polecat" is just another word for "skunk. Archive 2006-07-01
Last year He picked up roadkilled Coyote and a Skunk that was almost totally white. Weird and White
He also can't smell skunk so I'm not sure what I expect.
Officers then searched his home and found seven bags of skunk cannabis and cocaine weighing 18.1g.
I also like the way the skunk is walking around in the background with the jar stuck on it's head as they interview the whisperer. The Skunk Whisperer
The skunk gives off an unpleasant smell when attacked.
‘Coyotes, skunks, porcupines, gophers… badgers, white-tail and mule deer - we've seen it all,’ Bruce says.
We don't always get skunked on these expeditions.
MARIJUANA - Called marijuana, pot, grass, weed, skunk, reefer, bhang, ganja… the drug has many forms but they all snare the user with a chemically-induced peace that is very habit forming.
In spring, the stars of the Secret Garden are camellias, magnolias and the lushest of bog gardens crammed with skunk lilies and gunnera.
Beer sugars that are left uncared for become mouldy and skunky.
But, for reals, a polecat is a type of weasel or skunk. Blogger News Network
At about 3 AM, I was drunk as a skunk.
Skunks, foxes, weasels, opossums and rabbits all use groundhog burrows for their dens.
American sloth W 1883 OW mephitine skunk W soricine shrew 1781 - moschine musk deer c1878 OW OW talpine mole 1860 OW musteline weasel, mink tapirine tapir VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
Raccoons and striped skunks tell the story of scientists using DNA to track down distinct strains of the rabies virus.
I mean, what Barbara Bush said about junior being a “little scamp” really hasn’t changed much except that the little scamp is really a “little skunk” instead. Think Progress » Washington Post on access to prewar intel:
The chipset and motherboard are designed by Bechtolsheim's skunkworks team.
Been skunked a few times this year, even though you used your favorite rod, went to your super-secret spot and wore your lucky underwear?
Skunks repel attackers with a malodorous spray.
To summarize, a giant evil spider with a taste for hobbit has been gene spliced with a sweater wearing plasticene lamb, the mutated progeny of which are locked in a cage with a rabid skunk until they too contract the disease. Firedoglake » Face the Snark
I smoke high quality hybrid cannabis like skunk, northern lights and purple haze, and sometimes high quality hashish like menali, charis and gold seal.
Just as Lola was about to skunk Sherice with her peg points the doorbell rang.
The former Skunk Anansie singer's debut solo album deals with a time when her relationship - and her world - fell apart.
He is settled in a way that he was not when he burst on to the scene with a skunk haircut and a point to prove. Times, Sunday Times
Which got me to thinking that a true addict wouldn't label their skunk, smack or horse with the petite and clinical summation of ‘hard drugs’.
I am originally Canadian and way up north (about 1500 miles north of the USA/Canadian border) in Ontario, I learned how to cook Skunk cabbage from the indians. Page 3
The weasel family includes such colourful characters as otters, wolverines, skunks, minks and badgers.
It is the antisocial behaviour of a hairier, four-legged resident - the skunk. Times, Sunday Times
You miserable skunk!
They do, however, both belong to the same Mustelidae family which also encompasses badgers, skunks and otters, and that's close enough for us.
The weasel family includes such colourful characters as otters, wolverines, skunks, minks and badgers.
All kinds of critters like to dine on poultry, including raccoons, skunks, opossums, weasels, foxes, coyotes, dogs and feral cats.
I smoked skunk from morning till night. Times, Sunday Times
Skunks, foxes, weasels, opossums and rabbits all use groundhog burrows for their dens.
Fritillaria imperialis is also something deer don't like and its strong skunky scent is repellent to many other creatures as well, including some humans.
When I got to the gate I found all of the outlets already in use - skunked again!
Something about it was not what I'm used to, but it still smelled like skunk.
His commander had answered all his questions except the ones about batmen; Stanwix was too smart to get drawn into a provincial skunk fight. George Washington’s First War
The northern diamondback terrapin, red fox, snapping turtle, raccoon, rabbit, skunk, opossum and blue crab, all animals that do well living close to people, have adapted nicely to the rapid changes of the Meadowlands.
And is there a clear difference between the effects of legacy marijuana and skunk? Times, Sunday Times
He had few friends and smoked joint after joint of strong skunk cannabis alone in his bedroom. The Sun
Your bravado was fuelled by skunk cannabis and cheap drink. The Sun

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