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Discover LudwigThe word "smell" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are describing or referring to a scent or odor. Example sentence: The strong smell of gasoline lingered in the air.
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smell
noun
A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
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Yet nearly all advertising for sanitary products encourages us to hide this chunk of our lives – three thousand days for most women – by preventing leaks that might embarrass us and everyone else; by ensuring we don't, God forbid, smell of menstrual blood; by putting menstruation behind locked doors and safely enclosed in euphemism.
The ingredients make a big difference for sight, taste, texture and smell.
In fact my home is quite fragrant, and the smell that's likely to waft the way of our frequent visitors is not urine but the spaghetti bolognese boiling on the cooker to feed the three kids.
They had been called by the landlord of the property after other tenants raised concerns about a nasty smell coming from a room that used to be occupied by the factory worker.
On the Bandra skywalk, you can walk above the city with fresh mangroves on one side and the smell of kebabs cooking on the other.
They're able to infer human intentions by reading body language and odour, to the extent that they can smell oncoming seizures in epileptics and diabetics.
In many ways this was actually a very defensive budget, adapting to and neutralising Labour attacks, spraying out some one nation-style quasi-egalitarian rhetoric to cover up the stubborn smell of self-serving privilege clinging to the Tory brand.
At home, I take these little bottles into the shower and decant them into larger bottles (I just have to be careful so my wife and kids don't notice a change in the smell).
It cooks juicy hot gyoza (dumpling) in front of you at the wooden counter (choose one without garlic if you don't want to smell on the train).
When technology created a toilet that didn't smell and could be put behind closed doors, our attitude got queerer still.
The pilots returned the aircraft to the ground safely, but passengers told local media the plane was filled with a burning smell.
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