Read full poem →Such place hath Deptford, navy-building town,
Woolwich and Wapping, smelling strong of pitch;
Such Lambeth, envy of each band and gown,
Dictionary Entry
To sense a smell or smells.
In a Sentence
“I can smell fresh bread.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. smellingsalts smellingflowers smellingstrongly smellingsmelling sweetsmelling foul
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Poetry examples for “smelling”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →I took a little black book
To that cold, grey, damp, smelling church,
And I had to sit on a hard bench,
Read full poem →Congressional committees, which for want of a
more appropriate term, are called “smelling com-
mittees” (Laughter) were appointed for the pur-
Read full poem →An era dying, ready for the tomb,
Already smelling. And that was not all.
Just as the madam here must make report
Read full poem →I took a little black book
To that cold, grey, damp, smelling church,
And I had to sit on a hard bench,
Read full poem →And larger ones that thrum on ruder pipe
Round the sweet smelling closen and rich woods
Where tawny white and red flush clover buds
Read full poem →It’s God that speaks to us when we’re bewitched,
Smelling the hay in June and smiling quiet;
Or when there’s been a spell of summer drought,
Read full poem →Out in the night there's autumn-smelling gloom
Crowded with whispering trees,--looming of oaks
Read full poem →eyed headlines staring up at me on every street corner and at the
fusty, peanut-smelling mouth of every subway. It had nothing to do
with me, but I couldn’t help wondering what it would be like, being