Example Sentences

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“My main concern was that we had been smelling things for years and years and years and we never even knew what we were living next to,” she said.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2022

Then I knew what I had been smelling.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

As we were shoving off, old Surley, who had been smelling about after the other men, gave a loud bark, as much as to say, “Don’t leave me behind,” and leaped in after us.

From A Voyage round the World A book for boys by Kingston, William Henry Giles

It seemed to me that I had been smelling it ever since that first time, but you know how a smell sometimes sticks in the nose.

From Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

I calculated that a month before she had been smelling the mangrove swamps of Angola.

From Greenmantle by Buchan, John