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How to use the word smell in a Sentence? Page #7

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The smell was unbearable.

Wladimir Balentien

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Training an animal with a strong and reliable sense of smell to help detect disease in a vast country like Tanzania could potentially offer a valuable solution to help detecting the disease.

Khadija Abraham

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The serious approach that we have been able to cooperate on has made a difference to the life of people in Syria and to the possibilities of making progress on peace, the people of Syria and the people of the region have as a result been able to taste and smell the possibilities of what it means to have a huge reduction of violence and receive humanitarian assistance.

State John Kerry on Thursday

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We landed very, very close to where we were supposed to be, and there’s nothing more comforting to be descending down, and pretty soon the pressure on the outside is more than the pressure on the inside and we began to smell salt air, then we knew we were home.

Buzz Aldrin

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

As we sailed closer, we started to smell the dead carcasses of livestock that were floating past the ships. When we smelt those, we knew that this disaster was really, really bad.

Joseph Hing

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Dogs bite for a host of reasons, they may feel protective of you. They may be scared. Even a smell could trigger that reaction.

Sherry Woodard

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

You know what it should look like, smell like, taste like, feel like and that was a great experience for me.

Dave Gettleman as general manager

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

At night we can smell very strong gas, fewer people are stopping to buy things.

Samir Abdelnur

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They want to look at you, they want to poke you, maybe take a little smell once in a while, size you up and try to figure out if you've got the right stuff to be president of the United States, and I think it's a great process.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN
8 years ago

On average, people smell more aversive when they're sick.

Mats Olsson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This was the first experimental study to show that when you're sick you smell differently.

Mats Olsson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We saw this inflammation process affected the smell of urine as well, and breathe a good indicator of some diseases.

Mats Olsson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You walk into the workshop now and the smells are very, very strong, the removal of the ice has let all of that smell come out of the floor and timbers.

Martin Passingham

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When you would sleep in the boat, you were touching people; You would wake up and you couldn't handle the smell, so you would go to the deck.

Gonzalo Alvarado Sr.

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I saw something that no place on Earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than New York, the people in New York fought and fought and fought. We saw more death and even the smell of death and it was with us for months.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I saw something that no place on earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than New York, the people of New York fought and fought and fought. We saw more death and even the smell of death and it was with us for months.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I would take the Metro down and we would stop at the Pentagon station, there'd just be this feeling of dread even pulling through the station. The first time I was back in the building, I could still smell that kerosene smell, which was unnerving.

John Thurman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I like to keep an aromatherapy dispenser on my desk that makes my work area smell like lemon.

Sally Augustin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I don't remember what she looks like, i have no memory of her touch, her smell or what her voice sounded like. I found a letter last year she had written to my father. It was the first time I knew what her handwriting looked like.

Khary Pennebaker

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I have already found many types of body odor smell, the ones who have sweat smell and armpit smell mixed we don't give a pass.

Endang Ahmad

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I have already found many types of body odour smell, the ones who have sweat smell and armpit smell mixed we don't give a pass.

Endang Ahmad

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If you think you're free, no escape is possible." "A nose that can hear, is worth two that can smell.

Herb Cohen

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I love the smell of the universe in the morning.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Money has no smell", but smells the profiteers. ("L'argent n'a pas d'odeur", - Mais sent les profiteurs.) -

Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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