smelt
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Meanwhile a fire in Blaenavon, Torfaen, could be smelt as far away as Cardiff.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 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
It was infested with rats and cockroaches, and smelt "nauseating".
From BBC ● Mar. 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
Half an hour later every man had his mess-tin and we gathered at the cook-house, which smelt greasy and nourishing.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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
There was a recent first-person piece on the art of luring crafty little fish called smelts from the icy waters of Maine.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2017
He talks a detestable cant language, calling guineas "megs," and half-guineas "smelts."
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
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