Example sentences for: smacks

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

  • There's no good reason to think that this deal will work, and it smacks of a move made--by both Monsanto and Pharmacia--to preempt other, perhaps hostile, suitors.

  • That smacks of patronization to me.

  • This smacks of irresponsible journalism.

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

  • The Washington Post also off-leads Kosovo but its lead is yesterday's signal from the House Republican leadership that despite recently endorsing a 10 percent across-the-board tax cut, it will no longer press very hard for it, because, says the paper, of stiff opposition from GOP members of Congress who fear the plan is too costly and politically risky because it smacks of favoring the rich.


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