Explore Reeked through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Reeked meaning
simple past and past participle of reek
Using Reeked
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of reek
- In the example corpus, reeked often appears in combinations such as: reeked of.
Context around Reeked
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 5 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Reeked
- In this selection, "reeked" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, facelift, move and half stand out and add context to how "reeked" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include driver who reeked of booze and first half reeked of a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "reeked" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with reeked
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The place reeked of wealth. (5 words)
His plays reeked with sex and punctured conventional morality with Jack the Ripper slashes. (14 words)
I frantically tried to wash the cigarette stench off my hands, positive I reeked of smoke and guilt. (18 words)
Police found a chilled, unopened bottle of wine in his truck and added that their entire squad car reeked of booze after Bidzinski fell asleep in the backseat on his way to jail. (33 words)
So, a very luxurious, very powerful, very thirsty luxury sedan that reeked of to those who fought for reduced carbon emissions yet cost tens of thousands more than its all-gasoline sibling. (32 words)
It started as just another police DWI stop on Manhattan’s Lower East Side — a gold, two-seater Audi with three people crammed inside, including a driver who reeked of booze. (31 words)
Example sentences (12)
Red-faced council chiefs have been told to redo their homework over fears new branding for Aberdeen’s multi-million-pound facelift reeked of “older people trying to be cool”.
I frantically tried to wash the cigarette stench off my hands, positive I reeked of smoke and guilt.
So, a very luxurious, very powerful, very thirsty luxury sedan that reeked of to those who fought for reduced carbon emissions yet cost tens of thousands more than its all-gasoline sibling.
The move reeked of self-interest and entitlement at a time when the public collectively gag when they see the Tories.
The report claims that Wichalonis 'showed several signs of impairment and reeked of alcohol' at the time of her arrest.
Villa’s disjointed first-half reeked of a side decimated by injuries with a loaded calendar taking its toll.
It started as just another police DWI stop on Manhattan’s Lower East Side — a gold, two-seater Audi with three people crammed inside, including a driver who reeked of booze.
The place reeked of wealth.
His plays reeked with sex and punctured conventional morality with Jack the Ripper slashes.
Madrid finished like a mid-table team, Barcelona played like a mid-table team and the game reeked of mid-table mentality.
When Mexican investigative journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas was butchered in broad daylight on a street in Culiacán, the capital of the Mexican state of Sinaloa, something reeked.
Police found a chilled, unopened bottle of wine in his truck and added that their entire squad car reeked of booze after Bidzinski fell asleep in the backseat on his way to jail.
Common combinations with reeked
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- reeked of 11×