Example Sentences

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To those outside Washington, that will reek of overstatement.

From Washington Post • Jun. 18, 2022

The racecourse will reek of schadenfreude if Hydrogen should be beaten on his first start by a gelding that cost £2,000.

From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2012

And whoever, that is used to ride hard, shall observe, how thick this foul Horse breaths, and at what a rate he will reek and sweat, will not much wonder at the alteration.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry

No doubt if she removes her watchful eye and turns to bathe her baby, her tenement will reek with smoking fat.

From Mobilizing Woman-Power by Blatch, Harriot Stanton