Sentence examples for smell blew from inspiring English sources

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At spring's end, the gas-station smell blew in off the burning gulf and stunk up our spit-shined downtown.

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With the trucks honkin' in the background and that cool fishy chemical smell blowing off the canal".

That penchant for putting to sea led to the development of a large fishing fleet based at the port, the mark of which was a distinctive smell blowing across the city centre.

These decisions were based on the finding of the huge growth in one of the cooling towers, the patient information of an intermittent unpleasant smell blowing in the wind from a power plant adjacent to Industry A, and the four stray visitors.

To think of his schooldays is, he says, "to breathe in a whiff of something cold and evil-smelling – a sort of compound of sweaty stockings, dirty towels, faecal smells blowing along corridors, forks with old food between the prongs, neck-of-mutton stew, and the banging doors of the lavatories and the echoing chamber-pots in the dormitories".

If you smell gas or hear blowing or hissing noise, open a window and quickly leave the building.

If you smell gas or hear a blowing or hissing noise, open a window and get everyone out quickly.

This one's a little silly: 4D movies incorporate actual physical effects, like drops of water for rain, special smells, and blowing winds.

Where once they smelled fresh air blowing across the water, they'll soon smell the city-chosen air-freshener from, to quote the factory plans, "the misting of a deodorizer within the discharge ducts of the exhaust fans," which will "deodorize the air prior to leaving the building through the exhaust stack".

The smell of a rain squall blew away the wafting warmth of dog shit.

The peculiar smell of their wood burning blew across us in wisps.

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