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How to use the word smells in a Sentence? Page #3

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When you start omitting things, you're censoring things, i was shocked. They had civil rights and Black Panthers, but not Rosa Parks. What's left out smells of agenda.

– Ken Mercer

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9 years ago

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

– Desiderius Erasmus

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10 years ago

A well paid garbage man smells of success.

– Kilburn Hall

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Be scared. You cant help that. But dont be afraid. Aint nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.

– William Faulkner

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10 years ago

What's important for me when I teach is to communicate 'to cook up' the visions, smells, tastes and sounds of the time with my young audience. Hopefully, I am imparting 'feeding them' what's important about that period of History. I want my students to taste a respect for the information 'the food' and to know about the cooks, the restaurants, and how the ingredients of time comes together to form a real banquet of History.

– Paul. F. Meekin

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12 years ago

There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing at the keyboard with one finger. As a learning environment, it may be mentally rich, but it is perceptually extremely impoverished. No smells or tastes, no wind or bird song (unless the computer is programmed to produce electronic tweets), no connection with soil, water, sunlight, warmth, the actual learning environment is almost autistic in quality, impoverished sensually, emotionally, and socially.

– John Davy

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13 years ago

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

– P. J. O'Rourke

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14 years ago

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost--he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

– Josh Billings

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14 years ago

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

– H.L. Mencken

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14 years ago

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

– H.L. Mencken

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14 years ago

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

– Edward Thomas

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14 years ago

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

– Elizabeth Taylor

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14 years ago

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

– Zora Neale Hurston

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14 years ago

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

– J. Paul Getty

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14 years ago

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder.

– William Shakespeare

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14 years ago

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