reek
noun
a strong, unpleasant smell.
are reeking
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present progressiveof reek.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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There is not a clean one in this whole great city, that has an outside exposure, and 9 out of every 10 are reeking with filth.
From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by Louis Philippe McCarty
Miles of its flanks are reeking and bubbling with hot springs, many of them so boisterous and sulphurous they seem over ready to become spouting geysers like those of the Yellowstone.
From The Mountains of California by John Muir
The asphalt pavements are reeking, and your heels go in when you forget to walk on your toes—and stick.
From Senator North by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Don't ride and race us about till we are ready to drop, and our wind is almost broken, and we are reeking with heat and rough usage.
From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various
I bring my microscope, and on a seed Clinging with abject fear, I see a Shape Whose wings are reeking with foul slime, whose eyes Glare with a demon lustre born of Pain.
From Stories in Verse by Henry Abbey
