Example sentences for: smelling

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

  • But I'm running out of space and smelling salts and must turn this enterprise over to you.

  • By Saturday, the pundits were smelling smoke but decided that the press still hadn't "found the fire" (Evan Thomas, Inside Washington ). Charles Krauthammer ( Inside Washington ) sensed an element of "Greek tragedy" to the story, although he didn't specify whether he was referring to Oedipus Rex or Antigone . Thomas and Jack Germond found it easier to cast aspersions on Clinton's partner in ...

  • Country Life Farm is as pastoral as it sounds, smelling of grass and hay and horses.

  • He would cut into the belly of one, at the kitchen sink, Mother squabbling in the background, and he'd be up to his elbows in silver, blood shining from the knife, the room smelling of sweat, boots, coffee, smoke, and though I'd been at home, in bed the whole time, I could see the Puyallup River, the herons rising, cattails and redwing blackbirds with their bottlebrush shapes and streaks of color, from shore to shore a thick fog, but rolling up and off like smoke, a reel singing as the steelhead ran with the line, the hurry, the thrash and splashing, feet stumbling along the shore to keep up, to keep the line from getting cut.

  • When hunters bathe dogs with strongly smelling members of the Piper species they may be imitating animal behaviour or trying to mask the individual body odour of their dogs so that they remain un-detected by game animals.


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