Sentence examples for smell empty from inspiring English sources

As soon as I opened the Child's History I remembered the smell — which is only the smell of an old book, on good thick yellowing paper, like sawdust, only richer, with some suggestion of vanilla, or the teasing smell empty chocolate papers have.

The place smelled empty.

That Margaret will feel empty, empty, empty".

Rough Everyone.

"The country of the tourist pamphlet," Nadine Gordimer wrote in "A World of Strangers," "always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful".

A scolding sound of leaves, the empty smell of snow.

Despite my penchant for showing up to class smelling like an empty bottle of booze, I was hired to guard lives at a small, slightly dingy lake located about five miles north of my house.

My new bedroom was an empty cell, smelling coldly of cement, not adapted to my shape or anyone's.

It opens with Larkin in typically dismal form, "late getting away" escaping Hull on a sunlit Saturday afternoon, on an almost empty train smelling of hot cushions and the pervasive reek of the town's fish dock.

The fridge was unplugged and empty and smelled sour inside.

The venue was half empty and smelled like stale beer, but Dawn worked the stage like she was starring in an expensive 90s music video, dressed in head-to-toe white and flanked by a pair of hunky backup dancers.