Smell is an English word with synonyms like odor or odour. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Smell in a sentence
Related words
Smell meaning
- A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
- The sense that detects odours.
- A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.
Synonyms of Smell
Using Smell
- The main meaning on this page is: A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance. | The sense that detects odours. | A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.
- Useful related words include: odor, odour, property, scent.
- Possible Dutch translations are: ruiken, geuren, stinken.
- In the example corpus, smell often appears in combinations such as: the smell, smell of, and smell.
Context around Smell
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 13 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Smell
- In this selection, "smell" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, gas, tire, grill, coming, tire and grill stand out and add context to how "smell" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a rotten smell and a strong smell and coffee. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "smell" sits close to words such as billions, goalkeeper and kicks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with smell
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Gas smell, tire smell, grill smell. (6 words)
The smell of coffee overrode the smell of smoke. (9 words)
The product has the smell of scents and no harmful smell included. (12 words)
And though he’d closed his eyes, he could feel the weight of their stares, knew that they had now stepped closer to the bed, because of the mingled smell of the girl, and the smell of meat that his mother had left too long in the fridge. (48 words)
Amongst many of Tacha's fans who came to her defence was Nigerian singer, Mr 2kay, who revealed that she does not smell as he has once been with her when she hadn't taken her bath and she did not smell. (42 words)
Whether it’s comments about ‘gross’ periods or gummies to make our vaginas smell better (PSA: your vagina is meant to smell of vagina), women are already dealing with a lot when it comes to their anatomy. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Gas smell, tire smell, grill smell.
Here’s the thing though: live fish already smell fishy; dead fish smell even fishier (and they get fishier fast).
If ever there was a smell that men longed to smell it would be this.
She explained: "I was dead asleep one night and I woke up to my bedroom door slamming, full force and I could smell this sour smell.
The fake Meghan Markle smiles, and virtue signalling hypocrisy go hand in hand with someone who can smell weakness from miles away, or smell money making opportunities from even farther.
Whether it’s comments about ‘gross’ periods or gummies to make our vaginas smell better (PSA: your vagina is meant to smell of vagina), women are already dealing with a lot when it comes to their anatomy.
On getting close to the horse I could smell a very unpleasant smell coming from the horse.
When you open your DreamCloud mattress fresh out of the box, it won't smell so fresh (think new car smell).
And though he’d closed his eyes, he could feel the weight of their stares, knew that they had now stepped closer to the bed, because of the mingled smell of the girl, and the smell of meat that his mother had left too long in the fridge.
He had seen skate that had turned red, with: “àileadh fiadhaich a’ tighinn às, chan i àileadh grod” (“a wild smell coming from it, but not a rotten smell”).
It will thicken and smell tangy at first, then more pungent, but don’t worry – most of the smell will be in the liquid that gets separated out.
Professor Philpott added: 'Smell disorders affect around five per cent of the population and cause people to lose their sense of smell, or change the way they perceive odours.
The product has the smell of scents and no harmful smell included.
Amongst many of Tacha's fans who came to her defence was Nigerian singer, Mr 2kay, who revealed that she does not smell as he has once been with her when she hadn't taken her bath and she did not smell.
Daniel and the rest of the kids begin to smell it, even though Iggy doesn’t smell it.
It had a smell mechanic where you could stealth by using your sense of smell and other senses.
It was “a mixture of the smells of singed cloth, and steam, and a warm dampness; and a bit of the smell of the material, and it’s also a very domestic smell.
Stull like garlic has a strong smell and coffee beans can absorb that smell even if you seal them off from the air.
The smell is particularly heavy near the entrance to the Mullaghglass landfill site on the Mullaghglass Road, which runs directly above the Lagmore and Mount Eagles housing estates – the areas most badly affected by the smell.
The smell of coffee overrode the smell of smoke.
Common combinations with smell
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the smell 56×
- smell of 48×
- and smell 15×
- to smell 13×
- smell the 13×
- smell and 12×
- of smell 10×
- smell it 8×
- strong smell 8×
- smell in 7×