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Example Sentences
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Honestly, the whole discussion reeks of College Football Brain, that cross-affliction of entitlement and exceptionalism in which the most bizarre circumstances are treated as routine business.
She recalled suffering a nosebleed in the heat in a field where there was no shade, as well as working in fields that reeked of chemicals.
From Los Angeles Times
To conserve fresh water the men were allowed just two showers a week, and their own growing stench added a nauseating layer to the reek of diesel fuel.
From Literature
Snake is a wonderfully pulpy, instantly iconic creation, an outcast adventurer reeking of sweat and post-Vietnam cynicism.
If that doesn’t reek of a corporate attempt to get people hooked, I don’t know what does.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.