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

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

Already the air was reeking with pungent fumes.

From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

Swinging open the door, without warning, they entered a chill interior that was reeking with new odors.

From On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland by Sayler, H. L. (Harry Lincoln)