smeller

Example Sentences

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A flight attendant might be able to move you to a different seat or, if the flight hasn’t left yet, remove the offending smeller.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2024

A thousand people could give a thousand different answers since smell doesn’t lie in a scent’s source, but in the intensely personal archive of experience and sensation the smeller brings to the act.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2021

A hard worker, spiffy dresser and preternaturally talented smeller, Mr. Powell was also the ur-New Yorker, living paycheck to paycheck and doing what he loved in his off hours.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2021

Each choice leads to another, until the smeller dead-ends at a base note: amber, oakmoss, musk.

From The New Yorker • May 27, 2019

"No monkey!" called out the little fellow, after he had stood for a moment with his nose pressed against the pane of glass, making his "smeller," as he sometimes called it, quite flat.

From The Curlytops and Their Pets or Uncle Toby's Strange Collection by Greene, Julia