smell

We’ve all stood under a streetlight; we all know the smell of wine and cheap perfume.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

He was working from home on 13 August when he first noticed the smell of smoke, at first thinking someone was having a barbecue.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

“A neutral smell is the best,” he said, “because your nose is much different than my nose.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Fitted with a 3D-printed helmet and harness packed with sensors, Chloe is part of experimental efforts to use dogs' extraordinary sense of smell to develop a non-invasive test for the disease.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

The smell of burning plastic filled my nose.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

Uber passengers complain about an overload of air fresheners during their rides, but drivers say it beats the smells coming from the back seat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Brentford will play on the counter-attack here and Bournemouth will have a go at them, so this smells like a draw to me.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

In short, unruly crowds, strange smells, intrusive noise and late nights are not unique inventions of the TikTok era.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Instead of being laid out spatially, its wiring works more like a bar code, with distributed patterns of activity representing particular smells or complex memories.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

“It smells so clean,” I say to Mima.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

The place supposedly smelled of cheddar for weeks afterward.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

The haze can be smelled even indoors in the city of about 700,000 people.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

"The lab smelled like a fish market," she says.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

We were front row and we like smelled her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

No boy, no matter how sweet and earnest, no matter how good he smelled, could give her what her sister had.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

As the state has relied heavily on its water, native fish such as Chinook salmon, steelhead trout and longfin smelt have declined.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

"The common area smelt of sewage, there was water dripping through the ceiling and there were public toilets out of action for the whole voyage," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Various types of native fish have suffered declines, including steelhead trout, white sturgeon and longfin smelt.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Look no further than GameStop’s $56 billion bid for eBay, which is the equivalent of a smelt swallowing a whale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

It was dim and dark and the pillars went high up, and there were people praying, and it smelt of incense, and there were some wonderful big windows.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

Drivers who use air fresheners are just trying to keep their cars smelling good between passengers, says Chris Gerace, who’s been driving for Uber and Lyft for a decade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

This version leans hard into fresh corn, still in its cool green husks and already smelling sweet before you cut it from the cob.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

Winds and continued heat are still helping to fan the flames with some tourists reporting smelling acrid smoke like a "bonfire" far outside the affected areas.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

The singer assured fans on Wednesday: “I’m doing better, I’m feeling better, I’m creating freely and there’s less fear in my heart and I’m just like smelling the roses.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

Indifferent to our worries, MacDuff followed his nose into the weeds, roaming in circles around us, happy to be outside smelling wonderful smells.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn