smelled
Example Sentences
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Buying perfume online can be a gamble: Unless shoppers have smelled the fragrance in real life, they have to buy it without testing.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
The results showed that people who tended to overeat because food looked or smelled appealing were more likely to see long term benefits from the drugs.
From Science Daily • May 7, 2026
“The thing about smog is that it smelled like a color to me because I live in color, and the way I described it was yellowish, greenish — murky.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
It smelled faintly damp — a mingling of industrial carpet cleaner and coffee that had been sitting on a warming plate too long.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026
It smelled of wet fur and wet feathers, and under it the musky, soft, growing smell of young animal.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
