smell
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You know the weather: warm wind, faint smell of rain, the vague sense that a storm could roll in at any minute.
From Salon • May 19, 2026
“These systems will even smell you,” he predicts.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Wearers, often young men, get people to sign fake petitions or retail workers to smell candles sprayed with bad odours.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
The smell is "like excrement," said 68-year-old Patricio Velasquez, who shuts himself inside every summer due to the odor emanating from the dump.
From Barron's • May 13, 2026
Anna leaned over me, leaned so close that I could smell … what was it?
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
Vocabulary lists containing smell
Smell Words
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Vocabulary from Readings 1, Unit 4
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