Sentence examples for i smell something from inspiring English sources

"I smell something here," he said.

"It was nothing, an 'I smell something' Manhattan call," one said disdainfully.

As the immortal Pop Lawson sniffed in the underappreciated "Terror of Tiny Town": "I smell something that should be buried.

"I just have the kind of expression which makes me look as though I smell something bad," he once said, disarmingly.

(Common sense tells us this already about, say, wine tasting: when we're given new terms — there's tar, tobacco, and rosewater here — we're more likely to say, "Oh, yeah, I smelled that!" than "Oh, now I smell something new").

I smell something fishy.

"I knew I smelled something funny".

But then I smelled something funny.

Five minutes after takeoff, I smelled something strange.

I smelled something so delicious that I slipped a note under her door.

"I smelled something bad and the sky turned dark," she said.