Sentence examples for a smack of from inspiring English sources

Rumours that they had been caught in a smack of jellyfish were unfounded.

A little less XO in the glaze, more honey and soy, a smack of chilli.

I just don't do it," she says, stressing the last sentence with a smack of the thigh on each syllable.

That sentence alone feels paranoid, more than a smack of the mad conspiracy theorist, until you start to look harder.

A flare in the nostrils, a smack of licorice and cane sugar — it is not quite the real thing, but enough.

(You don't have to be the poet Coleridge to think "I have a smack of Hamlet, myself, if I may say so").

Doha delivers a sharp smack of a reminder.

Rarely has an edict been issued with such a firm smack of the lips, yet nothing could be sadder.

There's a big smack of reality".

It has a zeitgeisty smack of Britishness.

It is the Century Club remixed for downtown, with a gentle smack of irony.