Sentence examples for smell potential from inspiring English sources

American newspapers have been quick to smell potential scandal, reminding everyone that the Obamas have form for dubious parties because of one where they had gatecrashers, while seemingly failing to notice that this is because the Obama parties sound like they might be fun.

That brought her to Urban Angler, then on East 25th Street, where she quickly smelled potential.

Hendrickson still smells potential goodness in Cothran and keeps digging, this time into an old story told by a black freedom worker who claimed that Cothran once spat in his face.

When the China-born, Wharton-educated Sun came calling, he smelled potential.

Boosters and alumni associations are swelled with the same sort of belligerent jingoism about their school's sports as much of the citizenry is about their nation when it goes to battle; in both sport and war, there is a ruling class that smells potential profits and will go to any lengths -- including exploitation of the young and poor (and, too often, dark-hued) to reap the windfall.

Sony sure does smell a potential market with this wireless media streaming stuff.

But a stroke of luck led the classified ads person at the Lancashire Evening Telegraph to smell a potential story and refer him to the features desk.

Critics, by contrast, smell a potential disaster.

Does anyone else smell a potential baby-related reality show?

Anyone who has been in corrections probably wouldn't deny the things that I wrote about: how "the system" is toxic both physically -- the overcrowding, the noise, the smell, the potential for violence -- and morally -- the lack of respect, the constant suspicion, the need to be "tough".

Matt smells a potential landslide for the Democrats in tonight's debate owing to the financial crisis, Palin's poor appearance on Katie Couric, and Obama's cool demeanor.