smelt
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Eurig Thomas, a resident in Nantgarw, Rhondda Cyon Taff, told the BBC on Sunday: "It smelt like a petrol station, it hit you as soon as you came out."
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Alumina is a substance extracted from bauxite ore that is mainly used as the raw material to smelt aluminum metal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
He and other environmental advocates say the voluntary deals struck by major water agencies would be disastrous for threatened and endangered fish, including salmon, steelhead, green sturgeon, longfin smelt and Delta smelt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 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
The air in the little square chamber above the bells was hot and stagnant, and smelt overpoweringly of pigeon dung.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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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
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
Laborers — partly fleeing potato famines in Scotland and Ireland — arrived in search of sustaining work in the flourishing iron smelts, coal and shipbuilding yards and textile factories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2015
They catch smelts by thousands, so that our town’s people, who can eat them not two hours out of the water, are spoiled for the smelts which are called fresh in cities.
From A Northern Countryside by Rosalind Richards
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