How To Use Reeking In A Sentence
-
If they believe in anything at all, it is this: They view us as a reeking collection of wretched, baseborn rabble, who are, on an individual level, a few billion neurons short of being governable by honest means.
Within the Architecture of Denial and Duplicity: The Democratic Party and the Infantile Omnipotence of The Ruling Class
-
At those words a doctor arrived, clad in the long leather coat and bird-mask of the Plague Years, reeking of pox and fire though London had known neither in more than a lifetime.
-
For the eleven-shilling oilskins I was referred to a villainous den in a back street, which the shopman said they always recommended, and where a dirty and bejewelled Hebrew chaffered with me (beginning at 18s.) over two reeking orange slabs distantly resembling moieties of the human figure.
The Riddle of the Sands
-
Still in her nightclothes, reeking of smoke, and gripping the smoldering diary, Cat rose from her seat to follow Jack.
Earl of Durkness
-
A gruff officer was waiting for him, reeking of coffee, the edge of his brown mustache darkened by a recent beverage.
DO NO HARM
-
With the air reeking of smoke, the firefighters got to work in dousing the flames as the flashing blue light of the fire engine lit the neighbourhood.
-
The stag is taken to the kennel and skinned, and all the meat cut into small pieces and put again into the hide, and the hounds then, in this cold-blooded way, rush at a mess, instead of the whole pack, in a state of excitement, falling on the hunted animal reeking with fatigue.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
-
Frist smiled and spoke unremarkably from the lectern, reeking of silverback testosterone. â€
Think Progress » ThinkFast: May 24, 2006
-
A gruff officer was waiting for him, reeking of coffee, the edge of his brown mustache darkened by a recent beverage.
DO NO HARM
-
As women peruse this period propaganda, we see the female body morph into a reeking vessel of shame that must be sterilized, aromatized, and exorcized in order to be considered attractive again.
Caroline Hagood: Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation
-
I won't have you reeking with sweat in my bed!
-
He picks it up, discovers it is a hanged ghost's reeking rope, and keeps it.
-
Fertile soils and spontaneous vegetation, reeking with miasma and overpowering from their odour, we had exchanged for a drouthy wilderness of aloetic and cactaceous plants, where the kolquall and several thorn bushes grew paramount.
How I Found Livingstone
-
Jim watched them, each dressed in fancy evening clothes and still reeking of alcohol.
-
The air was reeking with the smell of tobacco.
-
Too hung over to strip naked I'll shower fully clothed, squirting half a bottle of shampoo onto the reeking stains on the front of my shirt.
-
Captain Sinclair actually waddled out of his roundhouse to converse politely with the Governor while the convicts were lined up on deck under the eyes of the marines on duty, eyes bloodshot and breath reeking, but leather stocks and spatterdashes perfect.
Morgan’s Run
-
Marshes reeking in the sun
-
No creatures reeking of brimstone entered our church.
-
Moving her body through the crowd of reeking villeins and fat noblemen, she looked up at Will, she being half a foot shorter than he.
-
But due to our extraordinary wealth and power, insatiable avarice, hostility towards life, and obscene appetites for consumption, the United States is more akin to a cankerous fist-sized boil, oozing pus and reeking with infection.
One Nation under Capitalism: It's Time for a Crucifixion
-
Agent Donat arrives by parachute, spends a few minutes disguised as a Rumanian peasant, then transforms himself into Tartu, a Rumanian Iron Guardist, reeking with pomade, corny gallantries and devotion to the New Order.
-
Saw your, flowing through the flimsy skins, around the sheer perfume, reeking in your invisible smile.
-
I stripped off my sodden socks and my snowsuit, already reeking of wet wool, and left them on the radiator.
-
If there is a comparable odor, it is, indeed, the moldly inner sanctum of some fermenting, bursting hive; but beet pollen is honey squared, royal jelly cubed, nectar raised to the nth power; the intensified secretions of the Earth's apiarian gland, reeking of ancient bridal chambers and intimacies half as old as time.
La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
-
Reeking of cash-in, this bitty, piecemeal approach only served to fill in details of Croft's relationships with other characters, and was nothing more than a snack for fans of the series.
-
In these elections it advocates an extreme rightwing programme, reeking of nationalism and xenophobia.
-
Roni Mahler, guesting as the Countess, is diamantine as A Dragon Lady, all knowing, all seeing, reeking with impatience over insubordination.
-
He noted that the wharepunis were void of ventilation and reeking with tobacco smoke.
-
Now the musty walls are reeking only of Darren Clarke and the pungent whiff of his cheroot.
-
The reeking flowers had withered, their petals dropped to reveal small, flesh-colored fruits.
End of Time
-
I stripped off my sodden socks and my snowsuit, already reeking of wet wool, and left them on the radiator.
-
Because of this fact alone I should not commend the diversion of moving save to people of very ample means as well as perfect leisure; there are more reasons than the misery of flitting why the dweller in the kilderkin should not covet the hogshead reeking of claret.
Suburban Sketches
-
I arrived home after the appointment reeking of moxa.
Times Two
-
Reeking of managerial sub-thinking, the words chosen to sum up the new policy also sum up the current predicament of the party as a whole: stuck in the middle, unambitious and lazy.
-
Stripped to a pair of cotton trousers, with a dripping cutlass in one hand and a Colt's revolver in the other, an adventurer at the head of a bunch of dogs as desperate as himself fought his way across the reeking decks of a Chinese junk, to close in single combat with a gigantic one-eyed pirate who stood by the helm with a ring of dead men about him and a great two-handed sword upheaved ....
The Cruise of the Jasper B.
-
On this street was a throng of trucks and wagons lading and unlading; bales and boxes rose and sank by pulleys overhead; the footway was a labyrinth of packages of every shape and size: there was no flagging of the pitiless energy that moved all forward, no sign of how heavy a weight lay on it, save in the reeking faces of its helpless instruments.
Complete March Family Trilogy
-
Nonsense, you need to die in a house fire you cat p1ss reeking, farl faced, hare lipped ugly fcuking cnut.
Army Rumour Service
-
If you like your hard rock randy, riotous, and reeking with basic chording, you'll truly enjoy this journey down the AM / FM Memorial Highway.
-
For though my buns are reeking of dingleberry warfare, thou Charmin frees my buns from tyranny.
Think Progress » SC Lt. Gov. compares people getting gov’t help to ‘stray animals’ who ‘breed’ because they don’t know better.
-
A gruff officer was waiting for him, reeking of coffee, the edge of his brown mustache darkened by a recent beverage.
DO NO HARM
-
Dog training school salvinia from kia am reeking in la was quizzically to ask unwillingly the pairing, and nosecount nazimova endogenous to luckiness that eternally was any gutter.
Rational Review
-
It does not get spoilt by damp, like tobacco and cloth do; indeed, in addition to the amount of moisture supplied by their reeking climate, they superadd a large quantity of river water to the spirit before it leaves their hands, while with the other articles of trade it is one perpetual grind to keep them free from moisture and mildew.
Travels in West Africa
-
Perhaps I should turn up late, reeking of red wine and motel sheets, with lipstick on my collar and my flies down.
-
Was it then a necessary thing, that decomposition of the great cities which have governed the world, that affluxion of every passion, every desire, every gratification, that accumulation of reeking soil from all parts of the world, there where, in beauty and intelligence, blooms the flower of civilisation?
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete
-
Fertile soils and spontaneous vegetation, reeking with miasma and overpowering from their odour, we had exchanged for a drouthy wilderness of aloetic and cactaceous plants, where the kolquall and several thorn bushes grew paramount.
How I Found Livingstone
-
But I still contend that "managing" wolves down to minimal numbers, just enough to stay viable, is foolish, unnecessary, and reeking of anthropic bias.
Do you think that the long term ecological damage caused by exterminating predators or holding them well below their natural pop
-
After it had all been sorted, the driver came over with a large whisk broom, swept the leftover detritus into the gutter, and off they went, presumably to the next reeking pile.
-
*Speeks lowdlee over creeking sownd uv rae standing bak up*
Video: Kitteh Vs. Plastic Water Cup - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
-
The rain descended harder than ever, and he took refuge in the arched doorway of the village church, his boots already bemired, his great coat reeking with the downpour.
-
The horse was reeking with sweat.
-
Johannes looked around the tiny room, saw the narrow bed with its musty blanket, the reeking bedpan.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
-
You may all see him for yourselves: an effeminate, half-witted creature, reeking of strong liquor from the early hours of the day.
-
A secret pocket containing a sachet of natural, moth-repelling herbs ensures that your pashmina will emerge from the summer smelling sweet, rather than reeking of a musty old attic.
-
When once I had seen from the leads of our house the quag of reeking life around, the stubs and snags of chimney-pots, the gashes among them entitled streets, and the broken blains called houses, I was quite ashamed of paying any thing to become a Christian.
Erema
-
As women peruse this period propaganda, we see the female body morph into a reeking vessel of shame that must be sterilized, aromatized, and exorcized in order to be considered attractive again.
Caroline Hagood: Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation
-
As always, they were dirty, unshaven and reeking of vodka.
-
It is amazing, though, that even covered in vomit, only one person dared to complain; while others sat, reeking of chunder for nearly two hours as the train reached its destination.
-
wiped his reeking neck
-
Two decisions, both reeking of political patronage, were most important in influencing the control of Australia's media.
