Example sentences for: smacks

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

  • (According to Loury, "When I told one gathering of conservatives that their seeming hostility to every social program smacks of indifference to the poor, I was told that a surgeon cannot properly be said to have no concern for a terminally ill patient simply because he had moved on to the next case."

  • The cover story smacks supply-side economics guru Jude Wanniski for his grandiosity, tax-cut monomania, and all-around loopiness.

  • \t/, one not commonly heard in AE—in fact, one that smacks of a spelling pronunciation to an AE speaker; the pronunciation /\?

  • Conservatives reject anything that smacks of federal control of education policy, funding, or curriculum.

  • Still, there is something about the Kodak suit that smacks of a company relying on a court to do the work it couldn't do itself.


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