Sentence examples for fail to smell from inspiring English sources
But time has hardened the genre, and "only the most diehard sentimentalists will fail to smell a rat" (Stephen Holden).
Nowadays when audiences sense that a movie as shameless as "Autumn in New York" intends to ennoble them with tears and redemption, only the most diehard sentimentalists will fail to smell a rat.
Performance records from the field can't track times a dog failed to smell drugs present in a car, she noted.
There is precedent for the inability of some people with an otherwise normal sense of smell to fail to detect a particular odor, a genetic trait known as a specific anosmia (Guillot 1948; Amoore 1963).
But it will always fail to tell you how badly it smells.
Boulders itself is a beautiful beach, but in season it gets overrun with tourists – and penguins smell, something most tour guides fail to mention.
The smell of something warm and sweet will never fail to cheer you up.
Nothing equals the smell of frying bacon with that tinge of wood smoke — except when I fail to manage the draft correctly and have to open the windows.
We also found that many families inadequately sterilize equipment, conserve vegetables uncooked, fail to use pressure cookers, store vegetables for months to years, eat preserved vegetables uncooked, and, out of necessity, occasionally eat food that looks and smells spoiled.
