- present participle of smell.
smelling
Example Sentences
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Emergency workers stood on the charred roof, still smelling of burning, sawing off damaged sections and tossing the debris into a pile.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
In earlier work, Choe's lab studied pinene, a pleasant smelling chemical released by forest trees.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026
Under Ceaușescu “the clothes shops looked like rubbish dumps,” the clothes themselves smelling of “mud” and “axle grease.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Tracye Saar, who is her mother’s youngest daughter and also her studio manager, has memories of sitting under the long wooden tables at the ICCC, smelling the dust and oil from the sewing machines.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
Like seeing or smelling or wiggling your fingers.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
