smell of
Example Sentences
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Loud trucks kept passing and honking their horns, leaving a smell of burning diesel fuel in their wake.
From Slate • May 29, 2026
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
It is, of course, the pervasive smell of jet fuel.
From BBC • May 3, 2026
Mr. Williams, a chef based in New York, was born and raised in a beachside village on St. Vincent, where the smell of kitchen smoke often wafted in the breeze.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Soon the smell of cookies baking lures me downstairs.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
