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be smelling
noun
A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
Exact(38)
The stock market also seems to be smelling a turnaround.
But you won't be smelling all the pollutants that you've been smelling".
"And you don't want to smell anything that you shouldn't be smelling".
Alvarez versus Golovkin might just be smelling salt that boxing needs right now.
At this late stage, many none-too-affluent G.O.P. voters appear to be smelling a rat.
"For what these people are paying, they better not be smelling their neighbor's fish for dinner," he said.
Similar(22)
Something off can be smelled.
It can't be smelled on your breath," he says.
Burning incense could be smelled 100 feet away.
Slave ships could be smelled from miles away.
Those lagoons can be smelled for miles.
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