reek
noun
a strong, unpleasant smell.
is reeking
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present progressiveof reek (3rd person singular).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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It’s another if you’re tossing and turning because your beloved is reeking most foul.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2014
The foam flakes drop at every step from his mouth, and his skin is reeking with sweat.
From The Book of Were-Wolves by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Their bunks, some of them, are alive with vermin, and the bunk-house is reeking with all sorts of smells.
From The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies by Ralph Connor
It rains almost every day, and everything is reeking with damp.
From Three Years in Tristan da Cunha by Katherine Mary Barrow
The straw, the universal stocking of these women-diggers, is reeking with dirt.
From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd
