smell
verb (used with object)
to perceive the odor or scent of through the nose by means of the olfactory nerves; inhale the odor of.
have smelt
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present perfectof smell.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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They didn’t dare risk the salmon cakes; the bear would have smelt them from many daywalks away.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Are the garden's scents less fragrant that you wonder, for a fleeting instant, when you have smelt them before?
From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
The enemy must have smelt a rat and guessed the trap I laid for him.
From The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice
That the suspiciously-red noses of the newspaper men should have smelt the "immoral conduct" of Maxim Gorky, was really very fortunate for the latter.
From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Goldman, Emma
I know the nitrogen is driven out, I have smelt it myself; but what becomes of the black carbon?
From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Reuter, Fritz
