Example Sentences

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Snake is a wonderfully pulpy, instantly iconic creation, an outcast adventurer reeking of sweat and post-Vietnam cynicism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

Spurs now enter the final few weeks of the window reeking of desperation.

From BBC • Aug. 21, 2025

But this year, there have been more than a few complaints that the long-awaited year-end data dump was surprisingly "boring," and reeking of AI.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2024

Far from the handsome man she has pictured, he struts in with an “air of cheap assurance” and flashes his trinkets, reeking of cheap cologne, hair coated in bear grease.

From Slate • May 27, 2024

We soon had left behind us the warehouses and the reeking tanneries, and traversed pastureland on muddy tracks.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson