reek
noun
a strong, unpleasant smell.
had reeked
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past perfectof reek.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Growing up, Ikoyi had reeked of gentility, a faraway gentility that she could not touch: the people who lived in Ikoyi had faces free of pimples and drivers designated “the childrens driver.”
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Her little airy figure was in strange contrast with these gloomy passages, these stones that had reeked with blood and smoke.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various
The two kept house together; the same big house that had reeked with so much feminine life, and about which the odours of perfumes and powders still seemed to linger.
From Ghetto Tragedies by Israel Zangwill
And the ground underfoot, which had reeked of creeping and crawling things, was running like a wholesome river, and bearing back to the lips a taste as of the sea.
From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine
And the odour of bitter almonds with which the place had reeked was no longer very strong.
From The Brightener by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
