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Example sentences for "reek"

Lexicographically close words:
reefed; reefer; reefers; reefing; reefs; reeked; reeking; reeks; reel; reelected
  1. She had the reek of one who slept in ditches and washed seldom.

  2. Here a thick cloud of smoke and dust still hung in the air, with a stifling reek of powder.

  3. It seemed to me that he brought in a faint reek of powder with him, but I forgot this the next moment in the look of melancholy kindness I espied in his eyes--a look that enabled me for the first time to see him as my lady saw him.

  4. Does this, for instance, reek of sentimentality?

  5. A musty reek hung between the walls, but on the hearth blazed a hot fire.

  6. His nostrils could taste the pungent reek of a recent fire upon whose debris rain had fallen.

  7. Henderson had a momentary sense of unshaven faces with lips drawn over wolfish fangs, of the pungent reek of gunpowder in his nostrils and, in his ears, the cracking of pistol reports--as yet sounding only in demonstration.

  8. Blossom had escaped from the reek of tobacco smoke inside, to the soft cadences of the night-song and the silver wash of the moonlight.

  9. Now faint, and far away, hardly more than a hint of sound, they could hear something else, and it lifted Turner out of his reek of nightmare and semi-delirium so that his eyes cleared and his head came up.

  10. The air was thick with the reek of smoke and the fumes of liquor.

  11. Do they, as many saints have done, smell the fetor of sin, the foul reek of evil in the souls that pass by them?

  12. Durtal was fond of this neglected spot, with its reek of the grave and the salt marsh, and the mouldy smell, that earthy scent that comes up from a rotting soil of wet leaves.

  13. Southern society asks no repentance of him whose hands reek with the blood of his poor victim; southern society has no pittance for that family Keepum has made lick the dust in tears and sorrow.

  14. Yet, Singapore, with far more business than Manila, is destitute of a proper sewer system, and the streets in its native quarters reek with foul odors.

  15. Overall is that penetrating odor of the Far East, mingled with the smell of bilge water and the reek of thousands of sweating human beings.

  16. All about the house the peat-reek swung like mist on the mountain.

  17. It was low tide in the two bays, and the town was smelling less of peat-reek than of sea-wrack and saltness.

  18. I to see you and smell the wood-fire reek off you.

  19. Reek rose lazy and blue over the chimneys, the smell of roasting meats and rich broths hung on the air.

  20. Over Aora mouth reek went up from a fishing-skiff, and a black spot stood out against the snow.

  21. Why it is that changes from Freedom to Servitude, and from Servitude to Freedom, are sometimes made without Bloodshed, but at other times reek with Blood.

  22. Why it is that changes from Freedom to Servitude, and from Servitude to Freedom, are sometimes made without bloodshed, but at other times reek with blood VIII.

  23. Her fingers tightened about his thumb as she perceived the hot low room, the pounding of pressing-irons, the reek of scorched cloth, and Erik among giggling gnomes.

  24. There was the faint reek of hot, furry bodies passing back and forth and all around him.

  25. There amid the yellow and green and gold, amid the abominable reek of burning hashish I stood and faced Hassan of Aleppo!

  26. It was the reek of smouldering hashish--a stench that seemed to take me by the throat, a vapour damnable and unclean.

  27. What a reek of odours, what a hum of eager voices, must have risen up from this dense quarter of the busy, active town!

  28. Such was Pompeii, a seething, noisy, eager city, filled with the reek of dense humanity.

  29. Men asked themselves if so strong a reek could possibly travel from Vesuvius, and whether some vent had not opened close at hand.

  30. Seest thou the reek and smoke threatening yonder over the forest of flues and chimneys?

  31. Some had no windows and no chimney, the turf reek filling the hovel, but partly escaping by a hole in the roof.

  32. From several doorways came the reek of fish-frying.

  33. The reek of many breaths and candles nearly drove her back, but she pressed forwards towards a remembered window, through a crowd of bewigged women, shaking their bodies fervently to and fro.

  34. Before this my eyes had been so busy recording impressions that my nose had neglected its duty; now for the first time I sensed the vile reek that arose from all about me.

  35. I reek with all my might and main, Of plague and death the brewer; With here and there a nasty drain, And here and there a sewer.

  36. The reek of feverishly growing green things saturated the air.

  37. A vagrant wind-eddy submerged them in the foul reek of the dead thing's flesh.

  38. A wisp of brownish smoke puffed out of it, and the stinging reek of high explosive tainted the air.

  39. Here was the smell of tanning, and here the reek of a brewery, and here unprecedented reeks.

  40. Then came Blackheath, and then under the corner of the reek the Norwood stage.

  41. Already there was an acrid reek in the air.

  42. As if in verification of her words there came a puff of flame and a strong reek of gasoline.

  43. Out of the pounding traffic the pungent reek of oil and fiery metal rose up oppressive.

  44. We have gone back to the ages of Hebrew barbarism for our God--to the God of Battles worshipped by a heathen people--a God who loved the reek of blood and the smell of burning flesh.

  45. Some, packed thickly together in closed rooms where men must sweat and faint to save tobacco, breathe the noisome reek that rises from the spittle of their consumptive neighbors.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reek" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.