1.   Along with that sound goes the overpowering stench of mendacity and cant.

2.   An overpowering stench made close investigation difficult.

3.   And besides an overpowering stench emanating from the corpse, scientists had to deal with the sheer size of the mammal, Robinson said.

4.   He returned a week later to discover his home off its moorings, the ceiling caved in and an overpowering stench of river bottom.

5.   The men told their friends that the first thing they noticed was an odd smell, which rapidly became an almost overpowering stench of decay.

6.   Peering inside, Ziad reeled back from a cloud of feathers and an overpowering stench.

7.   Choking through dusty smoke and an overpowering stench of the decaying dead buried around them, they push on.

8.   The area was filled with the overpowering stench of gasoline and rotting flesh.

9.   The bodies were later placed on the floor of a large, air-conditioned room through which relatives passed, crying and wailing amid the overpowering stench.

10.   The neighborhood was immediately filled with an overpowering stench of rotten food.