Sentence examples for smell akin from inspiring English sources

The chemical, named after its distinctive smell akin to mustard or horseradish, is a blister agent causing horrific burns.

All of Amsterdam's scents were perceived to exist against a background aroma of the canals – a subtle tone of slight decay and mould, a savoury smell akin to that of a coat bought at a jumble sale or a plastic bag containing a two-day-old used swimsuit and towel.

Open a bottle and you'll smell something akin to Juicy Fruit chewing gum, but savory — the sweet liquor tastes of cherry and pineapple at first, then transforms from fruity to funky, settling on the palate with a smoky, gamey slam.

The smell was akin to the vegetarian equivalent of a cockroach-infested Yardie killing chamber filled with the dismembered bodies of 12 Turkish heroin dealers who had been brutally tortured with razor blade-studded baseball bats and left to fester in their own excrement before being slowly scalded to death.

The quick spin and nifty lick that makes it feel more akin to The Sweet Smell of Success than to creaky Brit-coms of the same vintage.

Ms. Kopreski and Mrs. Dandrea said Padre Pio was said to also be able to bilocate -- be two places at once -- and that those praying to him often smell beautiful fragrances akin to flowers or incense.

I mean paint is pushed around, whether the subject is a person or flowers or the view through a window onto the backs of houses, in a way that conveys almost kinesthetically something akin to the smell and tumble of sweaty bodies and the aftermath of passionate exertion.

His system depends on our possession of favorable innate tendencies; to him, the moral sense was just that — a sense, akin to sight or smell.

This innate moral sense is akin to the innate predisposition for smell or language and suggests human beings are born with the prototypes of a sense that fosters anxiety when they witness others in distress and, similarly, promotes positive feelings when that distress is alleviated.

The smell of a good chippie is harder to describe and is "akin to the ozone effect at the seaside".

To solve this problem even in cases using a small number of sensors, we propose using a new smell description method that combines smell intensity and smell specifications analysis, akin to how sommeliers describe the aroma of wine.