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53 examples of Smelling in a sentence

I wouldn't say anything, I'd just sniff smelling salts and go back out there."
You're just smelling for smoke so you can follow the trail back to a burning house, so you can find the boy who lost everything in the fire to see if you can save him.
When one ant touches another, it's smelling it, and it can tell, for example, whether the other ant is a nest mate because ants cover themselves and each other, through grooming, with a layer of grease, which carries a colony-specific odor.
Three thousand years ago, civilization just getting started on the banks of the Nile, some slaves, Jewish shepherds in this instance, smelling of sheep shit, I guess, proclaimed to the Pharaoh, sitting high on his throne, "We, your majesty-ness, are equal to you."
All his ideas, imagination and philosophy were inspired by this little boy in the village where he grew up, smelling a specific smell, hearing a specific voice, and thinking a specific thought.
You can choose to be a vegetarian, but don't think that just because you've made that decision, bacon suddenly stops smelling good.
If you're a human, you have about 400 different kinds of receptors, and the brain knows what you're smelling because of the combination of receptors and nerve cells that they trigger, sending messages up to the brain in a combinatorial fashion.
Your whole world is about smelling.
For about a quarter of the population, urinating after eating asparagus means smelling a distinct odor.
The ability to smell separately with each nostril, smelling in stereo, helps to determine the direction of the smell's source so that within the first few moments of sniffing, the dog starts to become aware of not just what kind of things are out there but also where they're located.
As air enters the nose, a small fold of tissue divides it into two separate folds, one for breathing and one just for smelling.
If you can smell a spritz of perfume in a small room, a dog would have no trouble smelling it in an enclosed stadium and distinguishing its ingredients, to boot.
The worst smelling byproducts come from gram-negative bacteria that live in the spaces between gums and teeth and on the back of the tongue.
And methods like cupping your hands over your mouth, or licking and smelling your wrist don't work perfectly either.
So what you’re smelling now is the top note.
So what you’re smelling is several hundred molecules floating through the air, hitting your nose.
You are all smelling pretty much the same thing, OK? Smell has this reputation of being somewhat different for each person.
The next thing we wanted to do was find out what it was the mosquito was actually smelling.
But what this does is it allows us to measure the electrical response of the smell receptors in the antennae, and so that we can see what a mosquito is smelling.
So you can go home now and say that you've now seen an insect smelling and even hearing an insect smelling.
But what this does is it allows us to measure the electrical response of the smell receptors in the antennae, and so we can see what a mosquito is smelling.
But when Casper Van Dien's voice-over comes on, you start smelling something fishy.
Yet in this film,he comes off in this film as a bit gritty, but still emerges smelling like a rose, even until the very last scene, the assassination of his character.
One of the five human senses [hearing, seeing, smelling, feeling or tasting] takes on a dominant role in the lives of several of the main characters.
Big smelling pile of steaming crap!
The lone man then proceeds to do weird 'sickening' acts such as smelling the average looking woman's knickers.
LL Cool J's ramblings about everything smelling like food was a bit strange.
John Payne is a textbook noir guy -- just out of prison, tormented, misunderstood and kicked around by the cops (who do not come out smelling good in this story) and a terrible trio of criminals.
Smelling the biggest deal of their career, Jim, Sara and their two children pay a visit to the mansion, located on a remote bayou.
The jokes are funny, lines memorable (mamasita, what a rap she gave me... Khassein is a lump of evil smelling goat cheese) the girls are pretty and it rolls along as you "listen to the squeaking of the little mouse".
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