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No one has ever written an alternate history that didn’t reek of staginess, but Mr. Boyne’s cast comes coated with greasepaint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Corpse flowers bloom for just 24 to 48 hours, and once opened, they reek of gym socks, rotten eggs and decaying flesh … or, well, a corpse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Disproportionate death sentences may be convincing to those who make clemency decisions, and they reek of unfairness.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

In the movie, Charli contends with the unfathomable triumph of “Brat” while fielding brand deal offers and label demands that reek of the capitalist desperation to extend the “Brat” era as long as possible.

From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2026

Comforting sounds of work and activity, the air tanged with the coal reek of smelters and the salt fresh breeze coming off the water.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

Recorded largely in the steamy, sweltering basement of Richards’ rented French villa, Nellecôte, “Exile” reeks of filth, decadence and decay.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

The shelter in the town hall car park has excrement smeared on the floor and reeks of urine.

From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026

While the bots are getting slightly better at mimicking human cadences, AI-generated writing still reeks of the sterile laboratory where it originates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

By leaving the couple of hours between posts “to me, reeks of some sort of impropriety,” Adami said.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 8, 2026

It is the kitchen door that was opened, they are cooking potato-cakes, the house reeks of it, and to-day of course is Saturday; that will be my sister leaning over.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

He looked up to find the culprit: tree-shaped air fresheners that reeked of cheap cologne.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

"The house reeked when we first got here, it was genuinely atrocious for months," Razan says.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

She recalled suffering a nosebleed in the heat in a field where there was no shade, as well as working in fields that reeked of chemicals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

It also reeked of “desperation,” per former federal prosecutor Harry Litman.

From Salon ● May 29, 2024

We were not allowed to step around them as the ranks were formed: often we stood in water up to our ankles, and at night the barracks reeked with rotting shoe leather.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Snake is a wonderfully pulpy, instantly iconic creation, an outcast adventurer reeking of sweat and post-Vietnam cynicism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

Fans have been speaking to BBC Sport to vent their frustration at the situation, with one saying: "Spurs now enter the final few weeks of the transfer window reeking of desperation."

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2025

If you’re not keen on slathering animal fat all over your face and reeking of beef, there are a few alternatives that promise similar results and smell much better.

From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2025

Far from the handsome man she has pictured, he struts in with an “air of cheap assurance” and flashes his trinkets, reeking of cheap cologne, hair coated in bear grease.

From Slate ● May 27, 2024

The creature hit the bottom landing and charged after her, so close she could smell its reeking breath.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas