Example Sentences

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“Humans can follow scent trails through a park and medical technologists have been smelling urine samples for diabetes for decades.”

From The Guardian • May 14, 2017

Our horses have been smelling wolves, but the brutes will not approach our fire.”

From Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet by Marryat, Frederick

"You must have been smelling something a lot more powerful than comet dust."

From The Year When Stardust Fell by Jones, Raymond F.

When you have been smelling a tiger-lily, has any of the yellow dust ever rested on the tip of your nose?

From Story Lessons of Character Building (Morals) and Manners by Bates, Loïs

"That's what I have been smelling all along."

From Baby Pitcher's Trials Little Pitcher Stories by May, Carrie L.