smelling

Example Sentences

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At her home in Stanton on Thursday, Leticia Rinker, 71, kept thinking she was smelling gas.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

It's the stuff of smelling salts and stretchers.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

In earlier work, Choe's lab studied pinene, a pleasant smelling chemical released by forest trees.

From Science Daily • May 9, 2026

Under Ceaușescu “the clothes shops looked like rubbish dumps,” the clothes themselves smelling of “mud” and “axle grease.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

I lowered the toilet lid and plopped down on it, upset at the idea of smelling like a billy goat.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall