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• Change the cat litter fer chrissakes. This place reeks.From the entry litter
• She's the only lobsterman, excuse me, lobsterperson who reeks of cigarettes.2017, Delia Ephron, Siracusa, page 225. From the entry lobsterperson
• Tommy wandered in, calm as you like, a full hour late, reeking of booze.2017, Jamie Bartlett, chapter 2, in Radicals, London: William Heinemann. From the entry half-cut
• "Lang may yer lum reek." Angus laughs, slaps Grinning Hottie on the back, and repeats the salutation.2015, Leah Marie Brown, Finding It (An It Girl Novel), New York, N.Y.: Lyrical Press, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN. From the entry lang may yer lum reek
• He says it so fast, though, that it almost sounds like, "Long may your bum reek."2015, Leah Marie Brown, Finding It (An It Girl Novel), New York, N.Y.: Lyrical Press, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN. From the entry lang may yer lum reek
• The sweet reek and disgusting, cough-syrupy taste of the local plum brandy, raffia or something.2002, Michael Crow, Red Rain (a Luther Ewing thriller), New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 89. From the entry cough-syrupy
• Adding to the problem were hierarchical relationships that also reeked of nonaccountability.2001, Samuel A Culbert, John B Ullmen, Don't kill the bosses: escaping the hierarchy trap. From the entry nonaccountability
• The facts of the accident, however, are too ambiguous to reek of malice or recklessness.1998 May 15, Barry Bearak, “Hailing Danger; Behind the Wheel: Long Hours and Hard Feelings”, in New York Times. From the entry and all
• Inside it is dim and smells like candles and the petroleous reek of cheap carpeting.1998, Eugene Stein, Rob Weisbach Books, Virgin Fiction, page 241. From the entry petroleous
• Blood mingled with liquescent skin and melting bone to form a reeking gelatinous mask.1986, Shaun Hutson, chapter 17, in Relics, Caffeine Nights Publishing, published 2013. From the entry liquescent
• The halfgod followed, dark nose held high, as if offended by every reek around him.1979, JACK WILLIAMSON, BROTHER TO DEMON BROTHER TO GODS. From the entry halfgod
• Wisps of straw stuck in the workdog’s coat, mud was on her feet, she reeked of cow.1944, Emily Carr, “The Cousins’ Bobtails”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry work dog
• Nor should hippophobes shrink away; though the story reeks of horses it is not horsy.1935, Time (volume 25, part 2, page 69). From the entry hippophobe
• Both of them had been called “little smellies,” because Hillie insisted their breath reeked of garlic and fish.[2012, Joe O’Neill, Wrath of the Caid (The Red Hand Adventures; II), [Hood River, Ore.]: Black Ship Publishing, →ISBN, page 92. From the entry smelly
• Geronimo passed Steve a cup of something that reeked of scrapings off a smoker's throat marinated in a jogger's underpants.2012, Joey Ashley, Beyond Isness. From the entry politeful
• As she approached closer, though, the load of rabbits came into vivid noseshot, and the saxophonist's nose wrinkled at the reek.2002, Michael Meehan, Stormy weather, page 74. From the entry noseshot
• Forty beds reeking and heaving; devils dancing about and between.1997, Flamingo Book of New Scottish Writing. From the entry skite
• The boxes would reek of the smell of rich plum cake, with brandy or sherry douched over it.1992, Edna O'Brien, chapter 9, in Time and Tide, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 66. From the entry douche
• I smelled it the moment I entered—that sweet smoky reek.1990, Michael Cunningham, “Alice”, in A Home at the End of the World, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, part, page 84. From the entry smoky
• While some exceptional Gays can proudly point to an unbruised high school existence, most reek with horror stories.1976 February 14, David Brill, “Suicide”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 33, page 10. From the entry unbruised
• Some of his contemporaries from other waters are greeted with nostrilsful of foul water, reeking of detergent and factory waste.1969 February 15, “Angling: Cliff Parker says: It’s a wise salmon that knows its own father”, in The Birmingham Post, number 34,408, page…. From the entry nostrilful
• All horizontal surfaces were occupied by at least one open beercan stuffed with cigarettes saturated in some reeking liquid.1966, Richard Fariña, Been down so long it looks like up to me. From the entry beercan
• The café reeked of brewing sage and human beings whose breath steamed the windows because of the cold outside.1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και…. From the entry steam
• Clifton was lying prostrate on the couch, a napkin round her head, and the reek of eau-de-Cologne filling the room.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry eau de cologne
• Fairly reeks of ague and alligators and things.1912, Acton Davies, Charles Frederic Nirdlinger, chapter 15, in The First Lady in the Land. From the entry all one's life's worth
• He's a political animal most thought had become extinct, a Spartist dinosaur reeking of hummus and hemp and definitely not the smoky fires of industry.2017 July 20, Stuart Maconie, Long Road from Jarrow: A journey through Britain then and now, Random House, →ISBN. From the entry Spartist
• To pathologize China's industries as corrupt not only reeks of centuries-old Yellow Peril rhetoric but also fails to acknowledge the shortcomings of transnational regulations.2007 July 23, Rachel Endo, “Inbox”, in Time. From the entry pathologize
• Together they cast a breedy scent like that arising from dank beds of galax, and it overpowered even the reek of the strange meat.1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain: A Novel, Atlantic Monthly Press, page 219. From the entry breedy
• The only downside with them is that they smell foul — they all seem to have this coppery, cornflakey smell which absolutely reeks.”1994 June 11, Tracey Leigh Hunt, quotee, “Confessions of a lingerie model”, in Manchester Evening News, number 38,862, Manchester, page 9…. From the entry cornflakey
• This long, dark cattle-shed is littered with jars of noxious chemicals, viscous brown liquids that reek of concentrated Prep School, and various rusted tins, scarily encrusted with Marmitey goop.2011, Michael Wright, Je't Aime la Folie, page 301. From the entry Marmitey
• Viewed from this perspective, the Victorian era reeks of a suffocating and bigoted complacency, and, no doubt, many white imperialists existed in a fug of self-righteous superiority.2006, Colin Kidd, The Forging of Races, →ISBN. From the entry fug
• She was the first to admit that during writing fits her unrinsed dishes stacked up until they reeked, but this wasn’t the same kind of smell at all.1996, Lynn Kurland, chapter 3, in A Dance Through Time, New York, N.Y.: Jove Books, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry outhousey
• Its shady recesses would then harbor that special boletic reek which makes a Russian’s nostrils dilate— a dark, dank, satisfying blend of damp moss, rich earth, rotting leaves.1947, Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory (1979 Paragon paperback), page 47. From the entry boletic
• So the exotic writer of Modernia prepares a reeking corruptive dish for his readers, o.r else an anaesthetic concocted from the malodorous flowers of the night.1928, The North American Review Volume CCXXVI, O. Everett, →ISBN, page 67. From the entry corruptive

Meaning of reek

1. noun A strong unpleasant smell.
2. noun Vapour; steam; smoke; fume.
3. verb To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.

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How do you use reek in a sentence?

Reek is used as a noun and verb. For example: “You reek of perfume.”

What is a short sentence with reek?

“You reek of perfume.”

What does reek mean?

Reek means a strong unpleasant smell.