smelt
Example Sentences
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Populations of Chinook salmon, steelhead trout, Delta smelt and other species have been declining.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025
In my family, everyone new to the table — new partners, neighbors, friends — must try a smelt.
From Salon • Dec. 14, 2025
Populations of Chinook salmon, steelhead trout, Delta smelt and other species have been declining in recent years.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025
At Minworth Wastewater Treatment works in the Midlands the scale of the current problem can be both seen and smelt.
From BBC • Nov. 17, 2025
He smelt its rage and its terrible hunger; he heard its tireless breath.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
