How To Use Smell In A Sentence

And, yes, the otherwise companionless apartment smelled like love for a few weeks each spring. The Orangery
The air smells like moist potting soil, the skin of potatoes… the damp chalk of limestone.
These creatures have the reputation of being smelly, vicious, spiteful and unreliable.
In some cases, the vomited milk may smell curdled because it has mixed with stomach acid.
It is true that, even at the time of the discovery of nitrobenzol, he pointed out the striking similarity of its smell to that of the oil of bitter almonds. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants

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I do not want to see or smell your funky feet, crusty heels or unpedicured toes.
The tantalising smell of roast tomatoes and red peppers is a taste of delights to come. Times, Sunday Times
We take a sightseeing boat trip around the bay and get a glimpse of the smart new opera house which looks exactly like two durians - a very distinctive local fruit that tastes great but has a repellant smell.
The other cheese beloved in Savoie, the smelly, oozing reblochon, is the star of a Savoyard specialty: the famous tartiflette. Savoie the Fair
There is a faint hissing sound and a burning smell. Times, Sunday Times
I could feel the cold upon my skin; I breathed it into my lungs along with the heavy smell of formalin. NIGHT SISTERS
I could still detect the faint smell of bleach.
How many pounds of pulvil must the fellow use in sweetening himself from the smell of hops and tobacco?
Since my parents both commuted a long way from home, long before the word "playdate" ever existed, I spent most afternoons running from house to house, soaking up the sounds, smells and tastes. Jessica Seinfeld: Reclaiming Family Food
The Secret Service smelled out a plot to kill the President.
There are other that smell similar, I think partly because as others have pointed out, this kind of reintroduced woods to womens fragrances. Perfume Review: Feminite de Bois by Shiseido
The whole downstairs of the house smelled something awful for two weeks.
Experts probed the origin of the sulphurous smell which appeared at the beginning of February after calls from worried Benfleet and Canvey residents who were left spluttering.
All the family are highly aromatic; fennel, like many others in this family, has an aniseed-like smell.
Nothing had felt this good since he had slept in Awi's wickiup, with the Dakota snow outside and the smell of cinnamon and long grass in his nose.
The dog snapped its jaws open and closed inches from Rae's face and he could smell the animal's fetid breath, choking him, causing him to gag.
Then back to the city and its vivid smells, the wail of tzigane orchestras, the little dancer of the Orpheum - what was her name?
The wind carried the sickly smell of burnt flesh and the chemical smell of the fires. Times, Sunday Times
Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey -- why is it that upon the sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh buffalo robe behind him, so that he cannot even see it, but only smells its wild animal muskiness -- why will he start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrensies of affright? Moby Dick, or, the whale
Stir in the tomato purée and cook for 5-10 minutes or until the raw tomato smell disappears. Times, Sunday Times
The tusky but soft-hearted little brute kept nodding his round, sparsely covered head while he listened, exuding a smell of lavender-water, cigars, and gutta-percha. The Freelands
Smell the tasting sample given to you - swirling it round the glass first if you can. Times, Sunday Times
To begin with the surface is coherent – now and again she smiles sadly at the charm he manages to bestow on that foul-smelling tannery – but as she turns the pages she sees it start to break down. Rachel Cusk | Portraits
I am not sure if all dumps are this smelly - I know that all dumps are odorous - but it was stinky.
His boots creaked at every step, his starched uniform crackled and a sourish smell of sweat and leather became noticeable. Autumn
Both have lost their sense of smell and say this stops them enjoying their food. The Sun
A and chronic smelly while stumbling out the telly lyrics courtesy of www. killerhiphop.com Im so fly Im so ferry and the way I flow is very ginsu or machete, move my pencil move his deli platinum band platinum bezzie make a straight girl out of lezzie magazine mac bezzie keep my windows like the prezzie press a button than Im stuntin my roof look like its duckin meter go WN.com - Business News
The orchestra plays Grieg and Moszkowski; a smell of chocolate is in the air; that tall, pink lieutenant over there, with his cropped head and his outstanding ears, his _backfisch_ waist and his mudscow feet -- that military gargoyle, half lout and half fop, offends the roving eye. Europe After 8:15
In the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins' evocative phrasing, ‘All is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; and wears man's smudge and shares man's smell.’
Up closer he could smell the sweet scent of her perfume, he only just realised too how incredibly beautiful she was.
As a result, the nexus of America's dairy industry is shifting to such places as New Mexico and Idaho with cheap land and fewer people to complain about the smells wafting from a 5,000-cow dairy farm.
Enveloped in that smell, I would play grown up and sit in the office sometimes, studiously recording the numbers of the vehicles that came in for work on the twin ramps over the six-foot-deep pit where the mufflers were installed.
Similarly, it has been decreed that concierges watch television interminably while their rather large cats doze, and that the entrance to the building must smell of pot-au-feu, cabbage soup, or a country-style cassoulet. Excerpt: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Unlike the kisses we shared in the past, this kiss was rough, hard, and I could smell and taste the alcohol on his breath.
Wrinkles creased his furry muzzle, as though he was smelling something foul.
Eh, Brother, don't you mean any and all capitalist running dogs are smelly, of which the Noble House and the House of Chen are chief and dung heavy?" he said banteringly. Noble House
If a wine smells off, chances are it won't taste right, either.
When the results of the fraud investigation were announced last week, the staff came up smelling of roses.
there is a possibility that his sense of smell has been impaired
I could smell something, something dampish but not unpleasant. Ancient, Strange, and Lovely
The following morning the pond was seriously cloudy and smelly and the fish were gasping for air. Times, Sunday Times
When the smell was pure oak, I remembered childhood woods; in fact one particular place in one particular wood.
We could smell burning wires. Times, Sunday Times
There was a powerful smell of stale beer.
The acute sense of smell is important, since the badger's eyes are quite small, and its eyesight is not particularly good.
There are worse smells than dogginess. Times, Sunday Times
Jerry smelled the familiar stench of beer as the tube neared his lips.
And there is a smell of arrack in the air as the men talk, the few that are willing to.
Dried manure ground into fine powder by hooves and wagon wheels puffed up into the air and its pungent smell filled the town and drifted far outside the town.
Tea at a tiny inn sunk in a dell through which a sleepy lane trickled between high banks -- tea in the pocket garden under sweet-smelling limes, where stocks stood orderly and honeysuckle sprawled over the brick-nogging, brought back old days of happy fellowship, just to outshine their memory. Anthony Lyveden
They can also detect low blood pressure and predict seizures, thanks to their acute sense of smell. The Sun
They are dubbed 'odorous' and 'coconut' due to the coconut - or rum-like smell they release when crushed. Livescience.com
I could still smell him in the laundry, hear his footstep, and run my hands over tools he'd touched every day.
Yes, even a governor or Oscar winner will be asked if they like the smell of their farts.
A great all-round cleanser that has a very pleasant floral smell. The Sun
The fallen tree had been moldy and rotten, the smell strong and unpleasant enough to deter most burrowing animals that would normally have occupied the space.
There's an overpowering smell of garlic in the kitchen.
The "fume" or "smell" events occur when oil seeps from faulty engine oil seals into the compressor bleed air used to ventilate and pressurise the cabin. HEADLINES
I can smell something nasty in the bottom of the fridge.
I bow over the toilet to retch but reverse away fast as last night's urine smells like cat shit this morning.
You catch the dry talcum smell of old ladies, which can't quite disguise the reek of stale sweat.
They were little boys and little girls that were covered in dirt and mud while their clothes were ragged in that smelly dump.
The flowers have a strong, fragrant smell. Times, Sunday Times
Inside, it smelled more like a madhouse than a clinic.
He does credit himself with a good sniffer though and claims that his thick moustache is both a blessing – pleasant smells linger longer – and a curse – the bad ones do too. Something Stinks « So Many Books
The disease usually does not affect the senses - taste, touch, sight, smell, and hearing - or the mind.
Never be tempted to use hairspray: it looks naff, smells horrid and your date will get an unpleasant surprise if they touch your hair.
Stepping out of the wooden portals, your nostrils are assailed by the pungent smell of leaf-wrapped dosai.
Beer has a very distinctive smell.
To us it smells like burnt chilli and it is slightly unusual. Times, Sunday Times
The beleaguering mountains smelled a flatlander when they saw one, and hated me right back. A June Defection
September 3, 2008 at 6:26 pm wish I cood but there seems to a carnival goin awn in my hed tonite, the steem caliope goin full blast Dee dee dee dee deet dee dee dee, and the midway barkers hollerin Step Rite up, just one thin dime thass right frens , and the belss on the carosel binging and the gurls shreilin on de ferris wheel, and I kin even smell the poppycorms. I can has chiropractor? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
They're essentially seeing something about time in the deterioration of the smell. Times, Sunday Times
I have the queer, faint, pit-water smell of it in my nostrils now as I write, and my fingers have subconscious memories of the soft, “cloggy” feel of the long-damp pages. The House on the Borderland
The muddy tide flat smelled to high heaven.
Danes long ago used the ashes of hay as a seasoning, so Mr. Redzepi does, too: they smell vaguely of popcorn, and have accessorized both an egg dish and one with king crab.
She could smell the pungent blossoms of the town's caragana hedges, for sure. The Doctor's Daughter
They consider trees dirty and smelly, and they drop leaves. The Sun
Because of its sweet smell, it was used in perfumes and incense. Times, Sunday Times
I've generally been a lover of orientals and fruity-fresh scents, eschewing white florals and anything that smelled powdery or "old ladyish". Boadicea Pure and Benefit Laugh with Me Lee Lee
The booth had positive outgoing air pressure so that outside smells couldn't get inside and affect the testers.
The seats were wooden hard and the air filled with the smell of sawdust and candyfloss.
Whilst the traditional different places of employment obviously differ (from, the smell of the "briny" with a cooking range being pitched up and down with the ship by the waves; to the unwanted inclusion of sand, leaves and insects in the field; to the salubrious comfort of an air base), the core skills, role and esprit must be common throughout the three Services. Army Rumour Service
She breathed in the fresh air, untainted by the smell of bat guano, and began following the trail she had marked earlier with hair scrunchies.
The room smelled of new calfskin luggage and nail-lacquer remover.
That meat smells a bit iffy to me.
What an experience it was; I was smellier than a yak and dirtier than the local kids, worried that MAD wouldn't allow me home.
If I'm not working, I take Mabel, my Jack Russell, to Hyde Park, and not even the smell of bacon sarnies from the hot-dog stand tempts me.
If it's feeling windy and I smell faint woodsmoke, I expect colder weather within a couple days.
Luckily I smelled the noxious fumes, ran upstairs and managed to extinguish it.
Happily the soap is also infused with peppermint and citrus scents so you don't end up smelling like a jar of coffee beans. Start your day right, with--
The smell of gas/heat overpowered me as I went into the house.
The whole place had a damp and evil smell, and as I moved my torch a rat scuttled across the floor.
The shutters were closed and the drapes were drawn too, so the room, which smelled strongly of something like camphorated oil, was lit only by a lamp at the side of the bed. The Count's Blackmail Bargain
In mammals, neurons located in the nose detect scents using special odor receptors, and shuttle the information to the olfactory bulb, which is the integration center for smell.
Actually now that you mention the hotwheels I used to carry pez dispensers which would often 'disappear' and then pen markers that 'smelled' - I guess smelling grape every now and then made a bad day a little better. Which one/s were you? Age 2-10
Neighbours wrote that the smell gets so bad they cannot open their windows and doors.
In the air was the hot dog smell and excited chatter of fairs everywhere. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
And tonight's timbale is one more good reason why - the kitchen smelled heavenly! Archive 2005-07-01
Likewise, the quality of each sense perception is embodied as a sense consciousness - sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch.
We could yet emerge from all this smelling of roses. The Sun
He filled it with tobacco and lit it, puffing the sweet smelling smoke around the car.
The violence of the past-specifically, the dreaded practice of necklacing, which mingled the smell of rubber with the ‘sickly stench of roasting human flesh’ has been eliminated.
The older travellers were certainly not blasés; they seemed to find pleasure and beauty wherever they looked: Ca da Mosto (1455), visiting the Senegal, detected in this graveolent substance, fit only for wheel-axles, a threefold property, that of smelling like violets, of tasting like oil of olives, and tinging victuals like saffron, with a colour still finer. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
Use it on skin and in hair and you will look and smell divine. Times, Sunday Times
We invariably travelled on some clapped-out smelly bus that made us nauseous with the diesel fumes.
He lay there while Afanasy, gloomy and scowling, hovered about him, sighing heavily, and smelling like a pothouse. The Wife
She didn't approach the door but paced the hall, her snub nose wrinkled at the sour smell of urine and smoke.
Many, but not all Carolina allspice have a complex fruity, spicy smell.
Worse still, he smells and if you're unfortunate enough to get next to him on the cross trainer and he starts really pumping it, it can cause disturbed breathing that leads to a fatal arrhythmia.
I suffer frequently from indigestion, incomplete evacuation, passing hard, foul-smelling stools and gaseous distension.
He complained to the local authority about the noises and smells from his neighbour's farm.
Run before it gets you with its diaper bag smell, pustules of mold, and ambiguous bloomy rind! Adventures With the Stinky Cheese Man: Andrew From Andrew's Cheese Shop
Rather, the smell of the place urges me indeterminately, diffusedly, to truantry. Journeys to Bagdad
The undies neutralise smells thanks to a filter which removes odours through a thin and flexible carbon cloth. The Sun
The wind carried the sickly smell of burnt flesh and the chemical smell of the fires. Times, Sunday Times
The air smelled sweet and clean.
And during frozen storage, the fish’s own enzymes also convert some TMA to DMA dimethylamine, which smells weakly of ammonia. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Smoke generators, burning fuel oil to create a dense and evil-smelling cloud, were able to screen targets from air or ground attack for extended periods.
There's a bit of a smell in here.
Caitlin O’Toole at News. com.au outlines ten things bosses hate about employees, from big-picture errors like failing to meet deadlines to personal problems such as smelling bad (telling a staff member they reek is never a fun meeting). Why your boss doesn’t like you | Lifehacker Australia
The meat smells of garlic.
The chilly wind whipped strands of dark hair across her face, and the dewy smell of wet grass filled her senses.
Considering sight and smell as discrete modalities experiencing the object in each is similar but also, importantly, and perhaps, subtly different.
The smell of the cabin hut and everything inside seemed to permeate my senses all at once. SONS OF HEAVEN
This is fine for smokers but non-smokers having chosen not to smoke shouldn't have to put up with the smell on them really.
It was night now, I could feel the cool of night in the air, and smell it in the breeze.
There's an awful smell in here.
His nostrils were filled abruptly with the distinct smell of smoke and burning food.
Unlike the six exteroceptive senses (sight, taste, smell, touch, hearing, and balance) by which we perceive the outside world, and interoceptive senses, by which we perceive the pain and movement of internal organs, proprioception is a third distinct sensory modality that provides feedback solely on the status of the body internally. UUpdates - All updates
And the apples are all underfoot among the yew trees, so it smells like a cider press in the kitchen," Mary said. CHARMED LIFE
Tess put down both plates and lifted the covers off. "Mmm," Brian said "Smells good."
A musty aroma of hunter's stew filled her nostrils, and the sour smell of soggy, rotten straw was almost unbearable all of a sudden.
Researchers in Africa have observed that bulls are always looking for mates, using smell and hearing to seek out females in estrus.
Can we observe differences in our psychophysiological response to malodours and pleasant smells?
Fish and guests smell after three days.
The eyes bulge, the lips distort and foul-smelling gases ooze from every orifice.
Air-fresheners mask bad smells instead of removing them.
Europeans often have difficulty in overcoming their initial aversion to this smell.
Israel's foot soldiers are getting new odour-free socks that can be worn for two weeks straight without smelling or stinking up the feet, the Maariv daily reported on Thursday. Elder of Ziyon
You couldn't walk past his bedroom door without noticing that acrid, rank acidic smell.
He was now alone, the smell of fried eggs and bacon still strong in the room, but he had not the stomach to eat.
Except without Yana's musky perfume, all he could smell was Rae's grapefruit scent. HAUNTED
He had another two hours before he had to leave, and the smell of pepperoni, black olives, green peppers and extra cheese wafting out from Simon's office was just too much to take.
My last apartment had a smell to it - though I have no idea why.
The air was pervaded by a sickening sweet smell of burnt meat and charred wood.
By the way, these flowers are for you as a reminder: Never mind the bad "posies" — and don't forget to smell the rosies. Mamie - French Word-A-Day
The air in the church had been redolent with incense, thick and sweet-smelling.
To get some insight into that, we called scientist Dennis Kujawski, a senior flavorist at International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. of New York, which has built a $2 billion-a-year business creating tastes and smells (though not with wine, which would say something like "contains flavorings" if it did include anything IFF produced). Putting Tastes Into Words
A man with a smelly dog got on board and sat rather too close to my nostrils.
Some of our comrades love to unite long articles with no substance, very much like the foot-bindings of a slattern long as well as smelly.
The best fish smell when they are three days old.
Three times a day the three of them sit down to eat at that table, in that floating house that smells of bilgewater and foot cream and baklava. Memory Wall
The man who made it smell like one. The Sun
A case in point is ‘Smelling Limes In Winter’ which begins with thrumming, dulcimer-like pluckings through which a central drone rises.
The faint smell of her perfume lingered in the room.
Not only does the technique have potential in the perfume industry, but it may provide clues about how we perceive smells.
By the early hours of Sunday morning the fire was under control but days later the streets around the city's southside were blocked off and the air was fetid with the smell of damp smoke.
Mary Jane smells old leaves, and the dusty, familiar scent heartens her.
The house was full of the rank smell of urine.
His sudden hot desire thickened the air between them and gave it a honeylike scent that only Brynna and her unwanted devotee could smell. Highborn
Then, the catch is inspected rigorously by organoleptic testing, which is a fancy science word for taste and smell. LSU, FSU experts answer questions about the oil spill
Lemon Verbena, a slender stemmed bush, has delicious lemon-scented leaves. Moonflower is an annual vine with sweet smelling white flowers that open in the evening.
CoCo View incinerates its garbage, and the strong smoky smell often permeated the rooms.…
We're not only all in this together, it's a lot deeper and a lot smellier than we ever thought. Times, Sunday Times
The restaurant smelled of bloody meat and salad dressing.
Give the pavilion a sniff - it smells of tar and wood. Times, Sunday Times
I squeeze the trigger, recoil, smell the metallic smoke, hear the shotgun crack.
A strong smell of disinfectant was hanging in the air, and fruit machines were winking sinisterly in semi-darkness.
Here are fruity, bouncy wines that smell and taste of spring. The Sun
Seattle grunge outfit Nirvana topped the list with Smells Like Teen Spirit, followed by Rage Against the Machine's Killing in the Name.
Delicious smells were emanating from the kitchen.
Lorna's pillow was still indented where her head had been, and he pressed the side of his face against it, breathing in the smell of her hair.
Almost invariably, for some reason, the overweight person is a huge offender, even though dressed in the muumuu or bowling shirt and sweatpants, they still manage to make up for looking bad by trying to smell good and are therefore a huge nuisance. Roseanne Archy
A super-efficient sense of smell is no longer vital to our existence.
A: Sometimes a small amount of fuel will slosh out of the fuel-filler tube before the gas pump's automatic shutoff kicks in, and it can produce enough fumes to be smelly for a while. Me & My Car
You know what I mean - visibly dirty, pronouncedly smelly, and exhibiting abnormal behavior (usually attributed to drug use).
The smell and feel of them but books that have been thumbed through by hundreds and gone yellowy don't have quite the same appeal.
His studio was like a creepy one-room place that was a walk-up on top of a deli, so it smelled real weird.
So by rights we should be in the midst of spring, with lambs leaping, the smell of dew hanging in the air and the sight of rowers happily plodding home from the Cherwell.
The musty, barky smell of fresh rain fallen on the dry earth is petrichor.
This room smells a bit fusty - I think I'll just open a window.
The smell of wood smoke, crowing of roosters and shanty, tin roofed housing took me back to that Africa of long ago. Chiapas as Bubba - Imperfection Personified
Bonfire night can fill a child with wonder and we love to see their little faces light up at the sight and sound of the fireworks and the smell and taste of treacle toffee and parkin.
They smell inodorously -- they do not wash -- they dare not risk cholera. The Innocents Abroad
But before you stock up, consider this: The Food and Drug Administration in 2009 warned consumers not to use any intranasal zinc products because of concerns that it can make people lose their sense of smell. No cure in sight for fighting the common cold
Do they spit venom or emit noxious smells? Times, Sunday Times
anosmia, which is the lack of perception of an odor for a specific compound, when the smell is otherwise intact. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
Do not allow yourself the comfort of an easy road, a road that is devoid of risk and genuine inspiration, because one day all too soon, you're going to wake up in a room that smells of formaldehyde -- a urinous, lonely room with floral-print wallpaper and a window that looks out on a solitary bare oak tree. Brad Listi: Unsolicited Advice
If you smell gas fumes or burning, take the car to your mechanic.
That smell, my fellow cellulite-ridden brothers and sisters, that smell is not cup cakes, toaster strudel or spaghetti!
There was something about the place, something in the air - not so much a smell, as an aura - that made you check your step, as if you were a rabbit sensing a lurking lurcher.
I could scent familiar, ancient perfumes, traces of mustier smells. The Dreamthief's Daughter
The faint smell of her perfume lingered in the room.
Once the acrid smell of freshly applied paint had dissolved, the deception was complete.

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