Sentence examples for smells sharp from inspiring English sources

The alcohol burns cold and smells sharp and clean.

They'll think of Hugh MacDiarmid, who wrote that the rose of all the world was not for him, "only the little white rose of Scotland, that smells sharp and sweet – and breaks the heart".

At the opening of the devolved Scottish parliament in 1999, the SNP contingent wore white roses – a subtle allusion to a haunting lyric by the nationalist poet Hugh MacDiarmid: "The rose of all the world is not for me / I want for my part / Only the little white rose of Scotland / That smells sharp and sweet – and breaks the heart".

Choose ginger root that smells sharp and strong.

When she walked in front of me down the hall passage and up the stairs to her apartment — she had the top two floors of the house — her hair gave off a strong smell, sharp as an animal's.

Arriving at the gate, I could already smell the sharp odor of diarrhea.

Seeing that yellow canary, hearing that clear Middle C on a Steinway piano, smelling the sharp odor of anise, feeling a pain of the jab of the doctor's needle in receiving an injection — these types of conscious experience have a character of what-it-is-like, a character informed by conceptual content that is also "felt", on this view.

The Angostura Bitters distillery is out of town, and you smell its ripe, sharp, herbal aroma before you see its colonial balustrades.

If it's fresh, it should smell pungent and sharp.

The red brick and stone, the smoke and soot, and the sounds and smells of Old Shanghai provide sharp relief to the shiny new Pudong financial centre across the river.

Jo Loves Pomelo Joloves.com, £45 for 30ml Confident and sharp, this grapefruit-infused scent smells as good on guys as on girls.