Example sentences for: smelling

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

  • They terrify patients with a "halimeter," a new gadget that measures a nasty smelling chemical called methyl mercaptan.

  • Where I grew up the expression phew was one of relief: Phew! I passed the test; Peeyoo ! was an exclamation of disgust upon smelling a bad smell.

  • Dogs show a form of behaviour called rolling/rubbing in strongly smelling objects [ 30 ] . The intention of the dog may be to eliminate or dilute the odour since this type of rolling is frequently associated with sneezing and running [ 30 ] . In other cases the dog may roll in an odour that is considered unpleasant by humans.

  • 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.

  • Alone in her kitchen with her cutting board, she seems to be smelling her own faint over-ripeness; when Mortensen holds his stare a beat too long, her body bends toward his as if it knows, on a cellular level, that this way lies nourishment.


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