Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet REEKING

Definition av REEKING

1. böjningsform av reek
2. presensparticip av reek

Exempel på hur man kan använda REEKING i en mening

• Sir, the amount of standing water, unpoliced grounds, of foul sinks, of unventilated and crowded barracks, of general disorder, of soil reeking miasmatic accretions, of rotten bones and emptying of camp kettles, is enough to drive a sanitarian to despair.

• Unwashed unshaven squalid figures move to and fro, among the steam that rises from the reeking bodies, mingling with the fog that seemed to rest upon the chimney tops, hung heavily above.
• Power was an able and eloquent man, "reeking of the common clay", at which Parnell's aristocratic sensitiveness recoiled.
• " The 1880 "Republican Campaign Textbook" by the Republican Congressional Committee describes the war as "Feculent, reeking Corruption" and "one of the darkest scenes in our history—a war forced upon our and the Mexican people by the high-handed usurpations of Pres't Polk in pursuit of territorial aggrandizement of the slave oligarchy.
• Historian Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska has noted that "Axon abhorred cruelty to animals and the degrading work of the 'slaughterman, reeking with blood and striking to death with remorseless blows a creature that shares with him the gift of life".
• How can he invite them to Royapuram and the settlement of huts reeking of fish and surrounded with his rowdy gang? He decides to hire a house in Mylapore and lend himself some credibility in the eyes of Saravanan.
• And the script for ‘Highway To Well,’ credited to the always-welcome Carolyn Omine, does an admirable job of making the marijuana element (underrated dispensary name) feel right at home as just another excuse for Homer and Marge's differences to bubble to the surface, rather than reeking with ‘very special episode’ staleness or sensationalism.
• " Lisa Alspector of the Chicago Reader wrote that the film is "a portent of the time when gay lead characters will be plentiful enough that they’re no longer required to be role models or political icons—Matt’s an old-fashioned schlemiel in a half-hokey, half-serious story whose slapstick and reeking scatological humor provide some childish delight.

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