(v. i.) To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale.
Example Sentences:
(1) The semi-final reeked of history as it pitted South Americans who had won the trophy twice against opponents with so much to rue in this competition.
(2) But the top-down crudity of the policy reeks of wonks who have never left a Westminster thinktank.
(3) A., Reeke, G. N., Jr., Quiocho, F. A., Bethge, P. H., Ludwig, M. L., Steitz, T. A., Muirhead, H., and Coppola, J. C. (1968) Brookhaven Symp.
(4) He blamed the reek and weird industry he was watching.
(5) Riffs that echo Metallica's Black Album, an encore that references Born to Run, and a band of session musicians straight out of 80s rock central casting; an Eric Church gig reeks of classic rock right down to the lead man's aviators, stubble and Jack Daniel's and Coke.
(6) This is based on a myth – there would have been little impact on the outcome of almost any postwar British elections if Scotland's votes were not included – but this silence still reeks of hypocrisy.
(7) Photograph: Kareem Shaheen for the Guardian The Guardian, the first western media organisation to visit the site of the attack, examined a warehouse and silos directly next to where the missile had landed, and found nothing but an abandoned space covered in dust and half-destroyed silos reeking of leftover grain and animal manure.
(8) The fish that were not killed by the heavy pollution now reek of petroleum and cannot sustain a village population of 69,000 people.
(9) Despite it being the second day of 30C-plus daytime heat and desert dust whipped up by the wind, accompanied by the omnipresent reek of strong weed, there are no sparked-out casualties to be seen.
(10) (Reeke, G. N., Jr., Becker, J. W., and Edelman, G. M. (1975) J. Biol.
(11) Photograph: Fox Searchlight Plinking harpsichord music Almost the entire soundtrack is by Alexandre Desplat, so we’re going to assume it reeks of harpsichord.
(12) The air reeked of pine resin and the pitchy vinegar of wood ants.
(13) Cameron worried that the whole Stronger In approach reeked of a metropolitan europhilia that would not chime with the public mood.
(14) Sneaked out quietly in a written answer to the House of Lords on Monday, the end of British support for search and rescue operations in the southern Mediterranean reeks suspiciously of Australia’s “stop the boats” solution .
(15) Yet the old togetherness is only visible in short bursts these days and the second Mourinho era is in danger of ending in bitter acrimony after Chelsea lurched deeper into crisis with a performance that reeked of indiscipline on and off the pitch at Upton Park.
(16) I landed back in Edmonton, and upon exiting the airport, was immediately struck by the overwhelming reek of nature.
(17) While sales figures are still miniscule, hundreds of new cassette labels have begun over the past few years; her favourites include Suplex , Reeks of Effort and Sexbeat , which is releasing a Cassette Store Day exclusive by Polaris music prize winners Fucked Up .
(18) Everything we owned was being flogged off by pinstriped bastards reeking of lunch.
(19) This guy was more than fifty years old, his clothes were oily, he wore a pair of yellow rubber shoes, and his clothes reeked of pesticide.
(20) Maria Zakharova, the foreign ministry spokeswoman, wrote on social media that the British bank’s decision earlier this week to close RT’s bank accounts “reeked of” the BBC – implying the British state broadcaster may have been pressing for the closure of Russia Today.
Reem
Definition:
(n.) The Hebrew name of a horned wild animal, probably the Urus.
(v. t.) To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.
Example Sentences:
(1) I am an old man and may never return home, but at least each morning it’s the first thing I see, and when I go to bed the last.” Over the following weeks I met dozens of Syrians like Reem, fighting for survival and dignity as refugees in Lebanon.
(2) Thursday's first US-style televised presidential debate in the Arab world will be broadcast on Egyptian TV between candidates Amr Moussa and Abdel Moneim Abou el Fotouh, with the debate moderated by leading talkshow hosts Yosri Fouda, Mona el-Shazly and Reem Magued.
(3) Egyptian millennials are far more likely to be accepting of an LGBTQ individual than their parents were Reem Shawky “I strongly doubt there was a coordination between these two movements,” he says.
(4) A Syrian teenager, who wished to be identified only by her first name, Reem, travelled with her father, mother and sister in a boat of 29 people to Leros from Turkey.
(5) These are great marketing gimmicks, but behind that fun facade is a company that [has been accused of] undercutting competition, dodging local regulation and undermining its drivers,” said Reem Suleiman, a campaigner at SumOfUs.
(6) Reem Sahwil and her family will be allowed to remain in Germany until at least October 2017, according to the German newspaper Bild, which cited sources from immigration authorities in the northern city of Rostock.
(7) That evening I sat with the family (Reem’s two brothers had joined her, living on the roof-top), drinking coffee and eating homemade bread from the open fire.
(8) UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees faces funding crisis Read more During the discussion, entitled “Good life in Germany”, Reem, a Palestinian, told Merkel in fluent German that she and her family, who arrived in Rostock from a Lebanese refugee camp four years ago, face the threat of deportation.
(9) Fourteen-year-old Reem was brought to tears at an event in July after explaining in fluent German that she and her family, who arrived in Rostock four years ago from a Lebanese refugee camp, faced deportation.
(10) We believe in destiny.” Reem, 20, a university student, sheltered at home with her four younger sisters and parents.
(11) I’ve seen perfectly healthy people go to prison for three years and how they looked coming out of it,” says Reem Shawky, a software specialist and photographer who does not experience a stable gender or sexuality, and who agreed to speak via email about LGBTQ issues.
(12) The headline and subheading were changed to more accurately reflect Angela Merkel’s comments, and the body text to clarify that a decision to deport Reem’s family has not yet been made, and to correct the word “sympathetic” to “nice” in a quote from Merkel.
(13) Egyptian millennials are far more likely to be accepting of an LGBTQ individual than their parents were,” says Reem Shawky.
(14) They said, ‘I don’t have a passport, I don’t have anything to say who I am, so I am Syrian’,” said Reem.
(15) The husband of the pregnant woman could not leave the camp, nor could Reem’s husband, or her 16-year-old son.
(16) Everyone on the boat claimed to be Syrian – according to Reem, only she and her family were.
(17) Earlier, Reem Haddad, spokeswoman for the ministry of information told al Jazeera: "I think if the people protest peacefully, if they cause no harm, if they don't burn or destroy, I think [security forces] will allow them to do so [protest], and I think after a certain time they will actually disperse them, tell them to go home."
(18) But she was forced to stop mid-sentence, and muttered “oh Gott”, on seeing that Reem was crying.
(19) Her husband was killed next to her, one of her children also died, and Reem lost a leg.
(20) Since our conversation, Reem Buqaee has managed to go home to Yarmouk, even though it meant returning to siege conditions.