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How to use the word smell in a Sentence? Page #11

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We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

– Tom Stoppard

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Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

– G. K. Chesterton

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Morpheus If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain

– Matrix, The

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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

– Rachel Carson

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To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

– John Irving

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It is really the undergraduate who makes a university, gives it its lasting character, smell, feel, quality, tradition ... whose presence creates it and whose memories preserve it.

– Sen O'Faolin

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Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

– Ashley Smith

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Never lose sight of the importance of a beautiful sunrise, Or watching your kids sleep, or the smell of rain. It's often the little things that really matter in life.

– Unknown

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They're slobbery and they're whiney and they look at you just like they could see right into your soul and they're unpredictable and the smell and they're noisy and the world revolves around them and why I don't get it. They're not interesting. They can't tell jokes, they don't have opinions, and they're boring, you know They're just boring and annoying and I don't want to have one.

– Barbara Hall

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My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

– Penn Jillette

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Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet.

– Jeff Melvoin

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Life without sacrifice is like a pretty rose without smell and thorns.

– A.Carcani

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