reeking
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Credit: Anti-poaching Unit, Zimbabwe Reeking of infection, the elephant stumbled into the Tanzanian camp where Thomas Appleby works as a safari manager.
From Scientific American • Mar. 26, 2012
Reeking, dark liquid flowed out of a broken pipe, toward the river, from next to what the soldiers said were latrines.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 19, 2010
Reeking of oil and money, the town is attracting the usual motley con men and drifters, losers and locos.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Reeking with atrocious romance he will write yet another novel, while perhaps Gladstone's chief private speculation is whether he ought not even now to retire from politics and serve God as a bishop.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Reeking and destructive when they’d been created in the Accelerated Age and still destructive even after they were dead.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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