smell

Example Sentences

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He smells of money, and she has a family whose house is about to be repossessed.

From Los Angeles Times

“These neighborhoods are so new, you can almost smell the paint drying, can’t you?” he said.

From Literature

The wind passed, the tail of a storm roaring out to sea, and Nim was snug in her sea lion shelter, breathing the warm smell of fur.

From Literature

"The smell is awful, very pungent. It is also unpleasant to look at. It looks filthy," said Nurhasanah, who like many Indonesians only has one name.

From Barron's

He only had a few minutes of screen time but his famous line in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 classic, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning", became legendary.

From BBC