smell of

Example Sentences

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Loud trucks kept passing and honking their horns, leaving a smell of burning diesel fuel in their wake.

From Slate • May 29, 2026

You know the weather: warm wind, faint smell of rain, the vague sense that a storm could roll in at any minute.

From Salon • May 19, 2026

Colin Ruggles, 61, lives opposite Pink Punters, and said he woke at 03:00 to the smell of smoke.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

Mr. Williams, a chef based in New York, was born and raised in a beachside village on St. Vincent, where the smell of kitchen smoke often wafted in the breeze.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

“It is dangerous these new days. The smell of my waters is different.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell