Sentence examples for odor something from inspiring English sources

There was an odor something like that of old moist stacks of newspaper.

An old casino has "an ill odor, something like an elementary school cafeteria where the children all smoke".

The whites were repulsed by the smell of Indians -- "an odor resembling a mixture of smoked beef, muskrat and polecat," according to a correspondent for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly quoted by Powers; "a pungent, musty odor something like that of combined smoke and grease," Lt. William Philo Clark, a cavalry officer, wrote.

When bream spawn, they sometimes give off an odor something like a mixture of watermelon (or other fruit) and fresh fish.

He struggled to compare the odor to something comparably offensive.

Its lack of foul odor seemed something like a foretaste of an improved future Gowanus Canal.

"There was this unmistakable odor of something dying or dead," said Ms. Ohlson, a 60-year-old journalist and author.

Her boyfriend, Oston Taylor, described the odor as something "like a morgue where somebody left the dead bodies out of the freezer".

It takes the Phaser about 12 minutes to warm up when you turn it on, and there is the distinct odor of something cooking as it does.

When a guard at a Victoria's Secret in Herald Square stopped two teenage girls on Thursday afternoon, he discovered some stolen items in their possession, but — tipped off by a strong odor — also something far more heinous, the police said.

One might complain about this remoteness, as Thomas Nagel does with the remark that panpsychism has "the faintly sickening odor of something put together in the metaphysical laboratory" (1986, p. 49).