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How to use the word SMELL in a Sentence? Page #5

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Its horrible. The smell is that bad you have to go inside.

Charlie Rosseau

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We continue to see dead and dying fish, people using the Kentucky River in the area of the plume will see dead fish and may smell them.

Jim Mura

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The first thing that hit me when we walked in the door was the smell. It was the smell of sweat, urine and feces, no amount of time spent in these facilities is safe for children.

Sara Goza

Found on CNN
4 years ago

For me, fragrances are very - one of these beautiful art forms that bring about a whole host of things. It's what you want to smell like, it's memories that make you smile or are resonant of times in your life, it can remind you of music. If you're a lover of scent, it's a very kind of particular and evocative thing.

Chris Pine

added by regnumveritatis
5 years ago

I could smell it and could tell that it had actually been through a cycle, smelled like Downy.

Animal Control Warden Jason Pound

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Now you can smell it burning.

Lucy Soule

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

They have a very organic, very pungent and clay-like smell.

Jamie Jordan

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth.

George R.R. Martin

added by Normando
5 years ago

Very unexpectedly and out of nowhere, I feel Joe Biden put Joe Biden hands on my shoulders, get up very close to me from behind, lean in, smell my hair and then plant a slow kiss on the top of my head.

Lucy Flores

Found on CNN
5 years ago

How does the place smell? Do people seem to care? If your heart is tugged at when you walk down the halls there's a good chance it is not [the] right place, the service you get on the front end reflects the quality of management behind the scenes.

Joel Smith

Found on CNN
5 years ago

You can imagine, if we look subjectively at their DNA, we could predict what will taste better or worse to people, so you can tailor dietary advice to people's actual ability to taste and smell.

Danielle Reed

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It was chaotic and completely humiliating. And the smell of the sewage was just deadly.

Rahma Mohammed Ali

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We did a lot of research in Perfect China and bringing Chinese clients to taste wines in South Africa with us, the main feedback that we get stylistically for the wine is that they enjoy the smell of oak but then they want smooth soft fruit juices on the palate.

Van Deventer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

So they get used to what things feel like and look like and smell like first, it's a gradual process, and it will probably take four to five months.

Kari Bagnall

Found on CNN
5 years ago

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

William Shakespeare

added by Dr.Rupayan Talukder
5 years ago

People carrying malaria parasite already have a signature scent, and we know if dogs can smell drugs, food and other substances, they should be able to detect this smell on clothing, too.

Steve Lindsay

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We took the socks that had captured the scent of the children overnight and flew them to the UK, where the dogs were trained to smell and differentiate samples that were infected or not.

Steve Lindsay

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Marigold flowers are used for Day of the Dead because of their pungent smell. It's supposed to attract the spirits back on this one day they are allowed to return to visit family and friend.

Aurora Anaya-Cerda

Found on CNN
5 years ago

You can smell it every day that you are there. It’s heavy. It smells toxic. what I’ve noticed is that I still have a lot of breathing issues.

Hank Burns

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

To my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, please replace President Trump’s name with your own name in a small sample of things Mr. Strzok has said, envision how you would feel if you found out that the chief agent investigating you as a Member of Congress was making these comments: 'F Trump,' 'Trump is a disaster,' 'Just went to a southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support' – or, perhaps most alarmingly and revealingly, 'We’ll stop it' – referring directly to Mr. Trump’s candidacy for President.

Bob Goodlatte

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I doubt we ’ll be there the whole time, typically when people smell jet fumes, they find a way to be a little more cooperative.

Jeff Flake

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Air Force is making the right decision [ to ] cancel the previously announced sole-source contract and hit restart on this process, even with the understanding that the Air Force One mission brings with it unique requirements and challenges, a $ 24 million sole-source contract just didn't pass the smell test.

Joe Courtney

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It sounded like if you were to put a bunch of rocks into a dryer and turn it on as high as you could, you could just smell sulfur and burning trees and underbrush and stuff.

Jeremiah Osuna

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

For me, it's a miracle, although the cream can smell pretty bad. I went to my daughter one time. She said,' You smell horrible. What do you have on ?' I said' marijuana.' My daughter laughed and said' whatever works.'.

Christy Diller

Found on CNN
6 years ago

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