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How to use the word smelling in a Sentence?

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Every new day begins with a clean white sheet of paper. Clear your brain of foul-smelling garbage. Destroy the parasites of the mind that wound the heart.

Narsha Bulgakbaev

added by nbulgakbaev
4 months ago

We collected some socks from people willing to donate socks, and we taught the dogs, by smelling the socks, which ones were the Covid socks and they picked it up very quickly, then we moved into the schools and started sniffing the kids at the ankles.

Carol Edwards

Found on CNN
12 months ago

The one thing we do know for sure is when you’re collecting a sample off of a human being, you want to go where the most scent is produced. That is the head, the pits, the groin and the feet. Given those options, I went with feet, we collected some socks from people willing to donate socks, and we taught the dogs, by smelling the socks, which ones were the Covid socks and they picked it up very quickly.

Carol Edwards

Found on CNN
12 months ago

I started smelling it inside the apartment, with all the door and windows closed, it was like a burning in the nose.

Tim Day

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Maybe I have a New York nose – I'm not smelling the filth. The number one thing I smell right now is pot – like everybody is smoking a joint now, you know?

New York

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

' The customs inspection of the hand luggage being carried by the United States citizen confirmed the presence of vapes with specifically smelling liquid, and an expert determined that the liquid was cannabis oil( hash oil), which is a narcotic substance,'.

The Russian Federal Customs Service

Found on CNN
2 years ago

' The customs inspection of the hand luggage being carried by the US citizen confirmed the presence of vapes with specifically smelling liquid, and an expert determined that the liquid was cannabis oil( hash oil), which is a narcotic substance,'.

The Russian Federal Customs Service

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm most grateful to the rescuers, i feel so relieved that I am now liberated from such a bad-smelling, dark place.

Shigeyuki Asano

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I feel so relieved that I am now liberated from such a bad-smelling, dark place.

Shigeyuki Asano

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I'm most grateful to rescuers, i feel so relieved that I am now liberated from such a bad-smelling, dark place.

Shigeyuki Asano

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Lisa Niziolek explained. In addition to ceramics, the ship was also carrying elephant tusks, possibly for use in medicine or art. Sweet-smelling resin, which could have been used for incense or for caulking ships, was also found. Previous carbon dating of the tusks and resin had dated the wreck to between 700 and 750 years ago. However, improved carbon dating techniques tell a different story. PIRATE MYSTERY : DOES THIS 300-YEAR-OLD BONE BELONG TO' BLACK SAM' BELLAMY ? When we got the results back and learned that the resin and tusk samples were older than previously thought, we were excited, we had suspected that based on inscriptions on the ceramics and conversations with colleagues in China and Japan, and it was great to have all these different types of data coming together to support it.

Lisa Niziolek

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Paul Marciano came straight up to me, forcibly grabbed my breasts and started feeling them — playing with them actually. After I pushed Paul Marciano away, Paul Marciano said, ‘ I ’m making sure they’re real. ’ Despite doing everything I could physically do to avoid Paul Marciano touch throughout the meeting, Paul Marciano continued to touch me in a very dominating and aggressive way, grabbing my thighs, my arms to pull me closer, my shoulders to pull me closer, my neck, my breasts, and smelling me. that did not stop Paul’s constant grabbing. I was extremely shaken, surprised and scared.

Kate Upton

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Urine, vomit, and kind of anything they could find. Just smelling it would make you throw up. It was pretty bad.

James Vivenzio

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I was in the room getting ready to go to sleep. I woke up and started smelling smoke and I looked out my bedroom window and started seeing smoke.

Brett McBride

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

When I was smelling it, I would try to cup my hands over my mouth and try to breathe less, breathe the air less, i've had headaches and stomach aches.

Mia Deukmejian

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I was laying in bed with my 2-year-old and I heard an explosion, then I started smelling burning, smoke and fire, i found my bother not breathing, with his whole face burned and his neck burned and trying to throw up a little or maybe he was gasping for air, so I called 911, she told WINKNews.com. Evan Spahlinger was taken to NCH Downtown Naples Hospital before being flown to a Miami hospital where doctors placed Evan Spahlinger in a coma to alleviate pain.

Ema Richardson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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
8 years ago

Smelling food is a really important part of eating well because it's linked to taste.

Susan Albers

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I'm working around food. I can't go in there smelling, and I cant go in there dirty.

Charles Gladden

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We would like to know what Frankie is smelling, [but] nobody knows.

Donald Bodenner

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It smelled like sh--, it smelled like sweet cologne. I guess it was love and hate, you know. I was smelling love and hate. They were giving me some love and hate.

Eddie Ray Routh

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Meditation is listening the song of the inner Soul, seeing the beauty of the inner Self, smelling the fragrance of the inner Spirit, experiencing the touch of the Divine inner energies and tasting the piercing sweetness of the inner God.

Amit Ray

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies

Erich Fromm

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

Herbert Rappaport

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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