Sentence Examples

1. As the chief rejoined them, with one hand he attached the reeking scalp of the unfortunate young Frenchman to his girdle, and with the other he replaced the knife and tomahawk that had drunk his blood.
2. She kept scrubbing down the meat and produce trays even though the meat and produce were long gone, spoiled and reeking and thrown out the back where the stench could waft away.
3. Daggon fell against the wall beside her table reeking strongly of black currants, spices, and unwashed man.
4. Ships are sent with the first opportunity the natives driven out, or destroyed their princes tortured to discover their gold a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants and this execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people.
5. The prisoner followed his guide, who led him into a room almost under ground, whose bare and reeking walls seemed as though impregnated with tears a lamp placed on a stool illumined the apartment faintly, and showed Dantès the features of his conductor, an under-jailer, ill-clothed, and of sullen appearance.
6. He then began pacing the room with a pensive and gloomy air, glancing from time to time at the jeweller, who stood reeking with the steam from his wet clothes, and merely changing his place on the warm hearth, to enable the whole of his garments to be dried.
7. He flipped a few of them over his left shoulder as he leaned toward me, reeking of cigarettes.
8. A bellowing answer came from the reeking passage behind me.
9. There the horses drew up, reeking with sweat, at the flight of steps, and a sergeant of the guard ran forward.
10. The last two men, both nondescript and reeking of booze, threw me to the floor.