Example sentences for: reeks

How can you use “reeks” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The movie "reeks of film-student overkill" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). It would only be allowed to "ooz[e] out of Miramax's storeroom" in the otherwise fallow month of January, says the Village Voice 's Amy Taubin: "[I]ts devices are too shopworn to allow for a personal or original point of view."

  • Sheehy's faith in change and redemption reflects an Oprah-esque optimism about human malleability, whereas F. Scott Fitzgerald's portrait of an egotist whose selfishness wrecks her life and the lives of everyone around her reeks of dourness.

  • This sort of thing reeks of press-released pre-packaged "color"-space-consuming and boring.

  • In an op-ed piece Monday in the conservative tabloid Daily Mail , Oxford University historian Mark Almond said the arrest reeks of hypocrisy and will "not send shivers down the spines of other dictators.

  • The early A Pair of Shoes (1885) reeks of some of that same piety.


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