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How to use the word SMELL in a Sentence? Page #9

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In 2014 I started smelling a very faint vinegar smell for 30 seconds or so, for about once a day. After the third or fourth time, I thought that was really weird.

Steven Keating

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

When you call up at the last minute and cancel a show, ladies and gentlemen that's starting to smell. This is not the John McCain I know, this is not the way a tested hero behaves.

David Letterman

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Being a corporate treasurer is not different from your personal mortgage, you smell the rates are going to go up and really want to make sure to lock up the rates while they're still low.

Jonathan Insull

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I always recommend the 5 S's of mindful eating: sit down, smell, savor, slowly chew and smile, more is not better, even with food. It's all about experiencing and enjoying what you eat. That's what makes it truly satisfying.

Susan Albers

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Do you smell the smell in the house? It smells like someone is dead.

Anderson Police Detective Scott Sanderson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It was clear that no one had cleaned the area where we were sitting, because there was no evidence of any chemical smell what so ever. This was purely that distinct smell of vomit on our hands and backpacks.

Scott Shirley

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Certainly the best short par 5 in the world, it's a beautiful hole. You can make 7 and smell the flowers along the way.

Geoff Ogilvy

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Never, were you ever asked if it had any smell to it?

Shayanna Jenkins

Found on CNN
9 years ago

In the summertime, because of the high humidity and how hot it gets here, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

My staff has always said, 'Don't say this,' but I'm going to say it again because it's so descriptive because it's true, in the summertime, because [of] the high humidity and how hot it gets here, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The monks had the idea to use alcohol as a base in the perfume, instead of the then prevalent olive oil or vinegar, which left a rancid smell later.

Gianluca Foa

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It isn't viewed well if you don't take a shower in Brazil, if you don't smell good.

Sissi Freeman

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

When I crawled out I was so cold, so I was warming myself near one of the piles that was still smoldering. I could see an arm. I could see nostrils. But I was numb to that by then, the smell is one that will never leave me.

Michiko Kiyo-oka

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If you compare the work involved for daily cleaning of the mess and the awful smell, as well as all the collateral damage involved, it has definitely been well worth it.

Julia Staron

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I asked them to put it out because the other customers could smell it, and they did.

Kelly Rose Belanger

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Hours after the investigators were at the facility, they noticed a flimsy-looking wall and a faint smell of marijuana, they couldn’t get to what was behind that wall until another search warrant was executed.

Christina Carrega

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

That's how I felt that day, it was the smell in the air that morning. It smelled like shit.

Eddie Ray Routh

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Coffee houses emerged early on as a big predictor of future home value. Within a quarter mile, close enough to smell the coffee brewing, that ring appreciates faster than rings further out.

Stan Humphries

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Every once in a while we'd slip a trading card in a guys pocket that said, 'Change your jacket, you smell,'.

Joe Ocrant

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Fires were going on all the time, you could see the black clouds, smell of bodies, lying there and decaying.

Lotte Hershfield

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Patients who suffer from decreased or total loss of smell, called ‘hyposmia’ or ‘anosmia’ are deeply affected by this problem, compared to the other special senses, for example, loss of vision or hearing, the loss of smell is often thought of as relatively inconsequential, but this is far from the truth.

Zara Patel

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If people realize they are not able to smell or taste as well as they used to, they should seek care from an otolaryngologist as soon as possible, because the longer the amount of time that passes before they are able to start treatment, the less chance they have for recovery.

Zara Patel

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Compared to the other special senses, for example, loss of vision or hearing, the loss of smell is often thought of as relatively inconsequential, but this is far from the truth.

Zara Patel

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's the smell, more than anything, it's upsetting for people to see.

Susan Harris

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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