smell
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Eventually, the company aims to improve dogs’ sense of smell, speed and agility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The smell of smoke lingered in the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
The mesh prevented physical contact while allowing the fish to see and smell each other once the cover was removed.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
It added that its staff had been working with the fire service to install equipment to collect the fuel and that the smell had died down.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Remember, Torak: a wolf’s nose is so keen that he can smell the breath of a fish.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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She, too, was worried about traffic, smells and possible contamination of nearby waterways.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
It sure smells like IBM mainframes of old.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
"It smells horrible," he said, explaining the fungus attracts flies which help spread its spores.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
“The room is full of talented guys, so everybody always smells blood,” said Johnson, a fourth-year pro.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
It smells wonderful, reminding me of citrus and warm summers.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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It was fall, and the entryway smelled aggressively of cinnamon brooms.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
“I saw thick smoke and smelled a strong odor of gunpowder,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
"The lab smelled like a fish market," she says.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
At the time, the neighboring Chiquita Canyon landfill had never smelled worse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
Akira loved this time of year, when the air was crisp and cool and smelled like cedar and Douglas fir.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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Eurig Thomas, a resident in Taff's Well, Rhondda Cyon Taff, said: "It smelt like a petrol station, it hit you as soon as you came out."
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Alumina is a substance extracted from bauxite ore that is mainly used as the raw material to smelt aluminum metal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
He and other environmental advocates say the voluntary deals struck by major water agencies would be disastrous for threatened and endangered fish, including salmon, steelhead, green sturgeon, longfin smelt and Delta smelt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
As they probed the earth, they smelt the dirt, looking for the distinctive odour of human remains.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
Everywhere smelt of suntan oil, hamburgers, and burnt sugar.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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A citizens' group said on social media that one resident in the street where the explosion happened had alerted authorities after smelling a possible gas leak.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Cats displayed this response more often when smelling unfamiliar urine than when smelling their own.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Casting his mind back, Uttam remembered that he decided to go outside, after smelling smoke, to check what was happening.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Especially during high-traffic times, after waiting in line, you’d pick up a phone still warm from the grip of the inmate who’d just been using it, the receiver still smelling like his breath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
I wonder if I can smell the smoke of their wood fires, more than thirty miles away, or if it is only our fort’s fires I am smelling.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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