Sentence examples for smell about him from inspiring English sources

There was an uncomely dry-rot smell about him that even he could smell.

This lengthy story of a spree killer who wipes out three members of a family in a murderous rage and the discredited hypnotist who comes out of professional exile to help catch him does contain strokes of good writing ("Josef had a particular smell about him, a smell of rage, of burning chemicals," in Ann Long's blunt translation).

At fifty-six, and with a terrible illness, Swayze still has his characteristic alertness as a performer; he has that fresh, new-boyfriend smell about him, even as he plays a rather heavy, noirish role, as Charles Barker, a veteran agent who is suspected by his superiors of being involved in something shady.

But before me stood a huddled, shriveled creature, maybe five feet tall, a greasy smell wafting about him.

There was a certain odor about him that smelled of piss vinegar and Old Spice.

"Smells about right," I said.

It smelled about right; the carbonation bubbled up my nose, thick and intoxicating, making me scrunch my face.

Even bald Kevin Martin, now officially the greatest curler who ever lived, has that certain smell of excellence about him that is pure horniness.

Last year in Pennsylvania, for example, a man was convicted of abusing of a corpse when his girlfriend overdosed in their apartment and cops only found out after a neighbor's complaint about the smell forced him to call 911.

"There was always a smell about those abandoned vehicles," Johnson says, displaying his sensitivity.

For its encore, 3 Doors Down chose Lynyrd Skynrd's "That Smell," about the smell of death.