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Meanings of reek in English
Synonyms
Examples for "smell"
Examples for "smell"
1
The warm sweet smell of the whin bloom was in the air.
2
He could smell it now in the same way here in Mississippi.
3
The smell of broiling and frying and boiling arises in the air.
4
The perception of the mind corresponds to the smell of the nostrils.
5
The smell of stale cigars and cocoa matting was in the air.
1
It may read thin here; it would smack racily in the playroom.
2
Lives alone in a long, low building right smack on the water.
3
So I gave her a good, solid smack in the same place.
4
I wanted to smack Frieda for being happy about anything right now.
5
The strong urge I had to smack her must have been obvious.
Usage of reek in English
1
The end-stage reek of Yates' optimistic plan for a new energy future.
2
It was moist; it was dank with the reek of decaying matter.
3
The pungent reek of incense from a street-shrine was in the smells.
4
The wall was all chinks, and the bitter reek came in unchecked.
5
Their reek floats round the world on all lands neath the sun:
6
The reek of gasolene and burning lubricants hung heavily over the field.
7
Stinger had passed this way and its reek lingered in the air.
8
But the reek of printing-ink never was good for the better feelings.
9
But the reek of gasoline told me that it was all true.
10
Then I stared out through the blue reek, and the earl looked.
11
There were explosions and the reek of overheated metal and smoldering insulation.
12
That cursed reek of yours would kill a hog of the stye.
13
Red ties can be a bit brash and reek of corporate greed.
14
The reek of vomit and raw spirits almost brings my dinner up.
15
These efforts would be more impressive if they didn't reek of desperation.
16
Then Surtur slings fire abroad, and the reek rises around all things.
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Reek across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common