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How to use the word SMELL in a Sentence? Page #6

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We use this oil because it gives the food a bright color and does not leave a strange smell or taste, we don't know what will happen to our dishes if we change the oil.

Liu Ming

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

The smell of chlorine is all over. Watching people take their last breath is very disturbing. I cannot tell you what it feels to watch all these things happening at once. I’m at a loss.

Wasim Al-Khatib

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I could smell a funny smell. Like rotting. Not nice. There was stuff inside of it.

Shane Schlatman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It turns out it wasn’t a duffel bag. We could smell it and it was a pig on a leash.

Jonathan Skolnik

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It took them 30 to 40 minutes to get him out of his seat and off the plane, he was hitting and punching other passengers as they were trying to drag him out. He was under the influence, and you could smell the alcohol on him.

Laura Aceves

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Fear can be passed on to others and, similar to fear of flying, its smell can be sensed by people in outlandish places or fussy situations. Its apprehension may be nasal or actuated through our brain, our memory or the sensorial spread, and not at the least through a sixth sense. (One could still feel the smell of fear )

Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
6 years ago

There was no air conditioning. There was no water in any of the water buckets. The litter boxes had zero litter. It was just feces that was in them. Police and animal control officials initially received a call from neighbors complaining about the smell coming from the home. When they first arrived, authorities told FOX4 they found a van in the driveway filled with dogs. When officials arrived they said they found a van filled with dogs. ( FOX4 News) The van was not running. The windows were rolled up and just cracked a tiny little bit, there were 14 crates full of animals inside. Sandy Shelby said authorities are investigating whether the homeowner got the animals from various shelters with the intention of rescuing them. I think that people start out with good intentions, I really do.

Sandy Shelby

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The smell, the nocturnal stillness, the dance of droplets and the moonlight on the road. The perfect sense.

Ashima

added by ashima
7 years ago

As a practitioner, I can't smell them, I can't see their eyes as clearly, what their gait is like, you miss non-verbal sometimes, i rely on thosenon-verbal cues provide important information that helps assess the individuals condition each session.

Mary Karapetian Alvord

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It's time to wake up and smell the Mutating Hash! Signature Based Malware Detection is Dead

James Scott

added by williamson
7 years ago

It’s a fantastic moisturizer, the only drawback is the smell.

Erica Strausssaid she

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It’s the Potomac Fever -- if you get close to being president, you can’t get the smell off, and you’re always going to want to do it again.

Brad Bannon

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Sometimes I ask myself how autumn smells? My answer: it's the smell of the autumn leaves firework and red wine.

Bryanna Reid

added by bryanna_r
7 years ago

We are human beings, not human doings. Every once in a while we need to stop and smell the roses, hear what is really being said, taste the essence of life, touch someone’s heart and see life for what it truly is, a journey with rest areas.

Andreas Simic

added by acronimous
7 years ago

By outsourcing the responsibility to Turkey and to Greece, European governments are basically saying 'we have solved the crisis because we don’t see it, and we can't smell it and we can't hear it, the crisis is as big as ever, and as yet unsolved by governments.

Van Gulik

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

They seemed drunk, i could smell alcohol on them. They were very angry.

Sai Shwe Lu

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

As a guy with four kids, who doesn't like the drug, doesn't like the smell, doesn't want my kids to think it's normalized, this is my number one concern.

Gavin Newsom

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

When they burn the body the smell makes our family sick and we don't want this to happen here.

Ahmad Timor

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We just kept hearing gunfire over and over and over again, and it just kept getting louder, closer, and I actually could start to smell what I guess was gunpowder.

Angel Santiago

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We’ll have a prime rib carving station and these big cast-iron doors where the prime rolls out, the optics will be impressive. It will smell great, look great, sound great.

Paul Mangiamele

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There was a strong smell from my hands after touching and holding it.

Savina Donohoe

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Right now people smell some blood in the water.

David Birdsell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If you smell these wines they still have this purity of fruits. There is acidity there, there are refreshing elements in these wines (that) will absolutely be an enjoyment.

Andreas Wickhoff

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They are smart and adaptive. They can smell food from kilometers (miles) away, just as you and I go to the nearby grocery store, or our favorite restaurant, the bears continue to return to a particular food source.

Brendan Cox

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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