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 dog's nose is cold even when his tongue is reeking; and as he walked slowly along, his exterior showed the proper thermo-metric nonchalance—it was not the time for a pyrometric measurement within the heart.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by Wilson, John Mackay

The foam flakes drop at every step from his mouth, and his skin is reeking with sweat.

From The Book of Were-Wolves by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

The air is reeking with smoke and disagreeable odors from below, where cooking is going on, and pigs wallow in filth in a rear apartment.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas

Peasant-like though the music is, reeking of the soil, rude and powerful, it still seems to refer to a mind of a prouder, finer sort than that of the other man.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul