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How to use the word SMELL in a Sentence? Page #2

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In Ukraine, the smell of bread crust at the visceral level is something unbelievable just because we were baking it since the dawn of time.

– Pavlo Servetnyk

Found on CNN
2 years ago

she had this inherent need to create a new identity for each and every occasion, to become someone different every day to mask the emptiness, the pain of true isolation. If you tried you could smell the death surrounding her; a dead soul is black regardless of what it may be wearing.

– Scott C. Holstad

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2 years ago

When I went to Costa Rica Poás volcano, Costa Rica Poás volcano was after over a year of magmatic eruptions and only a month after the lake reformed and it was deemed safe enough to return to the crater lake's surface, the lake itself is roiling and dynamic. As you get even closer, you can smell the strong stench of sulfur, which has remained on the clothes I was wearing to this day. Even worse is the smell of hydrochloric acid, which tastes sour in the air and stings the eyes.

– Justin Wang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Willow is settling into the White House with her favorite toys, treats, and plenty of room to smell and explore.

– Michael LaRosa

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My head felt like a 16-pound bowling ball, and I could feel my sense of smell and taste fading.

– Dave Juday

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2 years ago

This is simply a power play for a larger goal here, which is to run city government in Chicago, they are a large union here in Chicago, and I think at the end of the day, they smell blood in the water from my mayor, and they're going to push their weight around.

– Willie Preston

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Everyone is going to want to come to your house cause it’s going to smell so good.

– Shannon Doherty

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2 years ago

How they affect us can depend not only upon the chemical properties associated with the trees oils, but also upon the memories, if any, we associate with the smell.

– Sonja Peterson-Lewis

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2 years ago

I mean, there's a whole industry of different things that people give to people with olfactory loss, and mostly it's snake oil kind of stuff, and there’s very kind of skimpy data about it, but there is no medication that we have that restores a sense of smell.

– Andrew Lane

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I said (to Rogan) listen, I have no smell, which probably means I have no taste. He said as soon as you get up in the morning get tested. So I get up 9 o’clock Monday morning, get tested. I test positive. He said get monoclonal antibodies in you as soon as possible so I did. By noon, I had the monoclonal antibodies in me and then he told me to do an NAD drip. I did that right after, tuesday, I get ready to shave, cleaning my razor, I can smell the alcohol. My taste and smell were back by the next day at 11 o’clock in the morning. Then, I took a dose of ivermectin. Yesterday, then I did a vitamin drip and then today I’m doing another NAD drip. Could not feel better. Feel like a million bucks. I’m doing two-a-day workouts by the way, too, for the next 10 days while I have COVID, and you know I’m in quarantine, and yeah, I got my smell and taste back in less than 24 hours.

– Dana White

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

So now when I cook with sage and smell it wafting through the house I remember my grandma so young, and those days with family( most are gone now) all through such childish and innocent eyes, so, is the sage dressing a good recipe ? Meh. Is it treasured ? Absolutely.

– Amy Rafferty

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's really consequential to appetite and social relations, like people have lost their sense of smell may not be able to detect if they have body odor, and can impact diet too.

– John Hayes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I want to see Jim Schmidt in a jail cell for the rest of Jim Schmidt life where -- Jim Schmidt's Jim Schmidt -- being in that concrete cell and Jim Schmidt can't go see those trees and hug -- and smell the fresh air like that, i want to look Jim Schmidt in the eyes.

– Joe Petito

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2 years ago

It's especially good if the memory is associated with smell, since olfaction evokes memory well.

– Wendy Suzuki

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2 years ago

I would describe the experience as kind of extreme turbulence on an airplane but louder, and there was kind of a lot of smoke smell. The first thought I really had when I woke up was,' Oh my God we're derailing,' it was probably 10 or 15 seconds of rocking back and forth and tons of noise, and then we came to a stop. Really we didn't know what was going on for a couple of minutes.

– Passenger Megan Vandervest

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2 years ago

We can take those smells and apply labels to them and get them to smell similar or different based on what we call them.

– Jason Fischer

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2 years ago

I would describe the experience as kind of extreme turbulence on an airplane but louder, and there was kind of a lot of smoke smell. The first thought I really had when I woke up was,' Oh my God we're derailing,' it was probably 10 or 15 seconds of rocking back and forth and tons of noise, and then we came to a stop. Really we didn't know what was going on for a couple minutes.

– Megan Vanderves

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Right away when we got there in October 2001 you would smell jet fuel when the wind picked up. Flight 93 was literally all around us, little pieces of metal, there was installation, wiring, plastic, paper, pieces of mail.

– Tim Lambert

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You may not be able to see or smell the vapors that could put your health at risk, and we recommend everyone in the affected area consider relocating until further notice and we can confirm it is safe to return to your homes.

– Joneigh Khaldun

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He always told me to stop and enjoy the moment, he knows for me, I’m always super goal-oriented and looking long term. His thing that he always told me was to stop and smell the roses.

– Larry Crouser

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I had chills, I lost my taste and smell, I still don't have that back, i also had the body aches, I had diarrhea really bad, I had the bad headache.

– Skip Collins

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There are many reasons for getting vaccinated -- keeping you from dying, keeping you from being hospitalized, protecting loved ones, as well as not ending up with permanent symptoms, potentially like loss of sense of smell and taste and confusion that may last for a prolonged period of time, there are many reasons still to get vaccinated. Even if under certain circumstances, it's recommended you wear your mask.

– David Weber

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I could smell that beach before I got to Kitsalano Beach, because there was already a lot of dead animals from the previous day, which was not the hottest of three, i started having a look around just on my local beach and thought,' Oh, this, this can't be good.'.

– Christopher Harley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It was a long winter, but the clouds have broken. We're not at the finish line yet, but summer has never felt more full of possibility. And doesn't the air smell so much sweeter without our masks ?

– Jill Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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