Example Sentences

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“I think that Sega is smelling blood here,” said Serkan Toto, a video game industry consultant in Tokyo.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2024

It’s an insane affair—how can you get away with anything when a grim-faced maid is smelling the royal sheets every morning?—and a lot of fun to watch, primarily because we want to see Caroline bloom.

From Time • Nov. 8, 2012

The characters’ return might indicate that MTV is smelling the beginning of the end of its current era of reality-shock programming.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2011

The hormone testosterone is going down and the hormone prolactin is going up in the male brain, because he is smelling the pheromones of his pregnant wife.

From Time • Mar. 30, 2010

Exhibit A, fifteen minutes in: “Look at that! That one is smelling for her son. Cows have great senses of smell, so great that they can even locate one another from over six miles away!”

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer