Example sentences for: smell

How can you use “smell” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • ..a very odd smell.

  • Years later I read that the expression comes from the first two letters of Puteoli (Pozzuoli), near Naples, whose refineries produced such a stench in ancient times that seamen entering the Bay of Naples could smell the town long before they set eyes on it.

  • Matt Damon makes me wary--I smell a hustler.

  • Worst of all was Kmart brand: When I opened the dryer, the spicy smell of barbecue sauce almost knocked me over, and the briefs were still covered in splotches of orange grease and jelly stains.

  • "The same thing everyone does after getting off an Amtrak train: attempt to wash that vague uriney smell out of their clothes."


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