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
The rain had ceased, but the warm earth was reeking with moisture.
From Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White by Joel Chandler Harris
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
I took the two children out on the sled upon the ice and pushed at the handle-bars until I was reeking with perspiration, afterwards giving Jennie her lesson at her auntie's.
From A Woman who went to Alaska by May Kellogg Sullivan
