How to Use smack of in a Sentence

smack of

phrasal verb

• But there’s not a smack of hipness here, and Jalali is not on a quest for cool.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2023
• The panel of guests, the phone calls from the audience, the strange little bits — it all smacks of TCGS.
  — Vulture Staff, Vulture, 13 May 2024
• My bowl smacked of a kind of sweetness not found in the natural world.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 4 Jan. 2024
• One fear is that this type of criticism might smack of elitism.
  — Laurent Dubreuil, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• She is played by Nicole Kidman), the whole setup smacks of too much, too soon.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• The floating smells of her cooking were vile, stews that smacked of potions.
  — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• Hear the loud, sweaty smack of a fighting rebound torn from the arms of a Memphis Grizzly.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• But the bread was like a gray cloud that swallowed the lush stracciatella and blurred the meaty smack of the mortadella and salame.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• But recent news still smacks of a prelude to Bacigalupi’s tale.
  — The Arizona Republic, 27 July 2023
• There was also the feud with Brooks Koepka, which smacked of chauvinism run amok.
  — Dave Skretta, Orlando Sentinel, 18 June 2024
• For many in the region, such language smacks of a dangerous kind of weakness rather than strength.
  — Matt Bradley, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
• This was, after all, what all great powers did, and the Spartan position smacked of hypocrisy.
  — Rohan Mukherjee, Foreign Affairs, 19 May 2023
• Tawny brown with a khaki head, this mellow sipper smacks of plums, cocoa and buttered toast.
  — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2023
• Predictably, though, anything that smacks of cash payments gets far less support.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
• In any other business, seeing the rank and file applaud the boss would smack of corporate fawning.
  — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2024
• The dry version comes with a fortifying bowl of chicken and pork bone broth that smacks of roasted garlic.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• Even in its infancy, there was something in New York graffiti that smacked of Business Art.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• This vivacious pink and gold salad, with its array of textures and smack of citrus, lit up my winter evening.
  — Melissa Clark, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024
• Otherwise, my parting impression of the restaurant would have been a key lime tart where every aspect of the dessert smacked of having emerged from a can or a tub.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• Grainy bars of duck breast set off with orange segments come with apples poached in saffron syrup, which sounds intriguing but smacks of old perfume.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
• The upshot is that the child of a sitting President is facing a possible twenty-five-year prison sentence for a charge that smacks of theatre and opportunism.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 June 2024
• Redolent of white flowers, fresh peach and apricot, on the palate, the wine is tropical-fruited, full-bodied and complex, smacking of tangerine, melon and spices.
  — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• The chief’s comments smack of respectability politics, Reedy said.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2023
• The idea is to build expertise in home countries rather than needing Americans to parachute in when problems are detected, which takes too long and smacks of colonialism.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2024
• Allocating resources for anticipated growth that may or may not occur smacks of the kind of central planning that dooms many economies.
  — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
• That move smacked of communism to the Truman administration during the anti-communist fervor of the time.
  — USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
• Fingerling potatoes, grilled low and slow until their skins turned thick and crisp and separated from their velvety flesh, smacked of a campfire, except for a luscious green gloss of savory sabayon.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2023
• But to fix the terms and conditions for practicing journalism by industry agreement smacks of price fixing in violation of the antitrust laws.
  — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 12 June 2024
• By the time the narrator arrives at her mountaintop destination (the novel’s events take place at some point after 2020, the reader infers), the sweet smack of a strawberry and the wet crisp of lettuce have already become foreign tastes to her.
  — Mayukh Sen, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2023
• There’s nothing like the bitter smack of a global pandemic to make everyone question their relationship with their employers, the norms of the traditional workplace, and even the purpose of working in the first place.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Aug 2024