smells

Example Sentences

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“It smells of melancholy and what-the-hell-just-happened,” the fake ad states.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

The second was external eating, where people eat because food looks or smells appealing rather than because they are hungry.

From Science Daily • May 7, 2026

First, a soapy sponge—nothing fancy, just one of the cheap ones, sudsed up with a dish soap that smells good.

From Salon • May 5, 2026

Anastasia Troyanova, a local correspondent for environmental news outlet Kedr, described "a huge cloud of black smoke over the town; it smells of burning".

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

I sniff the air, and it stinks of human smells, but there, on the weak breeze from the direction of sunrise, I smell coyote.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz