smelled
Example Sentences
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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
Hemsworth once told GQ that he borrowed the cream from his wife and that it smelled so good he “wanted to eat it.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 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 like rotting meat and sour ale, worse than a troll’s breath.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
