reek
noun
a strong, unpleasant smell.
was reeking
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past progressiveof reek.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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TV at the time was reeking with quiz scandals, and Wolper decided that the respectable public-affairs bit held the treasuries of the future.
From Time Magazine Archive
I seemed to be haunted by cabbage fumes; the little luncheonette in which I found the telephone was reeking.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
Ralph was reeking with perspiration, his eyes cinder-filled and glazed with the strain of continually watching ahead.
From Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer by Allen Chapman
The outcry against the Military rose to a high pitch; the air was reeking with denunciations apropos of their culpability for—things in general.
From The Siege of Kimberley by T. Phelan
His horse was reeking with sweat as he staggered again into the school-yard; but already the people were gathering, with frightened, anxious, desperate faces.
From The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
