Example Sentences

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Kirstie said she first thought her "sweat was smelling rotten".

From BBC • May 11, 2023

Each time his nostrils flared, I tensed, even though I told myself it was someone eating pizza and not wildfire he was smelling.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2021

"He was smelling the finish line. Guys like that have a way of kind of turning it up a dial and he did that tonight."

From Fox News • Aug. 15, 2021

I sniffed the oil, too, though I did not know what I was smelling for; it was pungent and unpleasant, in a pleasant kind of way.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2018

And it was coming down head first, as if it was smelling its way.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien