reek
noun
a strong, unpleasant smell.
were 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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Parts of the city were reeking, and Lindsay could do nothing except stand on principle.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Brays have made me 423 feel as if boiled cabbage were reeking from every house in the village, and I am to associate with them quite as with people I like?
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 by Various
Under cover of the darkness and the storm, "Gibs" succeeded in safely returning to the Barracks but not until his hands and his shirt were reeking with the gander's gore.
From The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe by Mary Newton Stanard
The perspiration streamed down them, the sounds came forth as though their very hearts were bursting, their faces were hidden by their dishevelled locks, whatever clothes they wore were reeking wet.
From The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope
His neck and shoulders were reeking with sweat, and she could hear the labored breath pumping through his distended nostrils.
From The Gold Girl by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
