smelt
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"The common area smelt of sewage, there was water dripping through the ceiling and there were public toilets out of action for the whole voyage," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
His deceit was uncovered when Helen's son smelt a rat and applied for Clare's Law, external, where you can ask if someone has a history of abusive offending.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Look no further than GameStop’s $56 billion bid for eBay, which is the equivalent of a smelt swallowing a whale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
Native fish that are increasingly threatened include the finger-sized Delta smelt and white sturgeon, the largest freshwater fish in North America, which can reach more than 10 feet long.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026
I pulled out the stopper and smelt it.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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I used to avoid the old-school dishes – baccala, smelts, anchovies.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2025
"I don't think it would have happened from any area other than Aston with all of those foundries and factories and the smelts and the bomb sites," he adds.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
As part of a limited bar food menu, Beberman will be workshopping new dish ideas for the restaurant, including fried smelts and chicharrones over pork belly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2019
Last fall, scientists doing a comprehensive survey recorded their lowest-ever seasonal tally of delta smelts, by a substantial margin.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2015
At last, however, in the first week of February, we had a successful haul of mullet and smelts, many of the former weighing eight pounds, and the latter measuring fifteen inches in length.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Robert Fitzroy
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