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Example sentences for "smelly"

Lexicographically close words:
smelle; smelled; smelleth; smelling; smells; smels; smelt; smelted; smelter; smelters
  1. It was that smelly fish that did the business.

  2. I sometimes wish I were a deep-sea fisherman and could spend six weeks at a time out of sight of land in a smelly little sailing vessel.

  3. The hawser snubbed, the drum of the rusty winch rattled and banged on worn bearings to a tune of escaping steam, laboriously warping the smelly hull alongside the dock.

  4. He wept into the chicken-trough and into his handkerchief, until it was a damp salt-smelly wad.

  5. The light from the smelly kerosene lamps above fell on the dull sides of freight cars; he could see only a vague darkness between them.

  6. At supper, the biggest kerosene lamp was lit on the middle of the table, and spread its smelly radiance over the reunited family.

  7. He appears to have been on top of the bowlder when the shot was fired, but he descended, made his way to the smelly gun, and then examined it, the snow being tracked up in front of it.

  8. Sometimes there were fights among the assembled bears over the smelly feasts.

  9. Down in the woods, more than three miles from his coasting-place, he had made a meal the evening before off the smelly old carcass of a deer.

  10. And then again I have repeatedly seen him look up from his feast of smelly sirloin to make certain that he was not surprised by man.

  11. But more than all the other wise things he knew was the wise one about smelly things.

  12. He knew that when you were very, very, very sick, nothing pleased you so much as nice, smelly things.

  13. As he rubbed the smelly drippings over the heavy shoes he kept glancing toward the sky at the soft gray clouds, then he would say, "Look at dat smoke up at de big house.

  14. Uncle Jake was trembling as he looked down at his smelly shoes.

  15. He has a liking for carcasses, no matter how smelly or ancient.

  16. When skunk and mink--the more offensive of the smelly family--meet in contest, then smells to heaven their meeting.

  17. And again in 1911, over the French occupation of Morocco, when the German gunboat Panther and the German cruiser Berlin were sent to the closed Fort of Agadir near the mouth of the smelly River Sus.

  18. Kasimir Stanislavovitch's dark room was terribly hot with a malignant and smelly dryness.

  19. Mr. Joey Simpkins had shouldered his way through the smelly push and taken his stand beside the bewildered and half-fainting boy.

  20. You ought to be glad of the air, after that smelly straw.

  21. There were no whole men there, except the busy stretcher-bearers bringing in new tenants for the crowded smelly place.

  22. But when Olie came from putting in his team I was fast asleep on a luxurious divan made of a rather smelly steer-hide stretched across two slim cedar-trees on four little cedar legs, with a bag full of pine needles at the head.

  23. That fat old woman in her nasty smelly house!

  24. Since then every clothesline, every stair-railing has been covered with wet and smelly blankets that steam, but won't dry.

  25. If the institution is very saving, do you think it can ever afford to burn down this smelly old original building, and put up instead some nice, ventilated modern cottages?

  26. There was a pause, during which the snorting breaths of the medium were the only sound in the smelly little room.

  27. She ushered me into a close and smelly little room, with black velvet curtains and a couch covered with black sateen.

  28. Maybe there are enough dollar signs on his face to make up for his smelly clothes and age.

  29. Dave breathed softly as they neared the front door of the smelly place.

  30. In the unspeakably smelly alley that is known as Bukum Street two figures slouched along as though they didn't have an idea in the world where they were going, and cared even less when they got there.

  31. The blankets carried by camels had to be rolled lengthways in bundles of ten, and the rolls were then tied on to the camel saddle, where the outer ones brushed the flanks of that smelly and freely perspiring creature.

  32. Think of being tied to the saddle of a huge and smelly camel, whose gait made her sea-sick, for a long day's marching.

  33. I can remember just how they all looked sitting about the table, which was covered with a mussed red table-cloth, and lit by a big, smelly oil lamp.

  34. He refused my invitation to lunch at the City Club, and led the way into the fly-specked, smelly restaurant at the station.

  35. Mahommed ben Hamza, not quite so smelly in his new clothes, was standing at my elbow.

  36. And see here, you smelly devil: Here's money.

  37. I slipped into several shell holes and was almost over my head in the stagnant, smelly water.

  38. It was dirty, and there was a pigpen at one end,--very smelly in the August heat.

  39. They can't; they've blocked the way with their smelly black carcasses.

  40. The minute we stepped through that doorway they would be on us--the whole beggarly, smelly lot of them.

  41. There was a strong draft in the passageway, and a hot, smelly air blew against his face, and ruffled his hair.

  42. If they all contained ambergris, he thought, there must be tons of the smelly stuff.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smelly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aromatic; bad; fecal; fetid; foul; fragrant; frowsy; frowzy; fulsome; funky; fusty; gamy; high; malodorous; miasmic; mildewed; moldy; musty; noisome; noxious; odorous; offensive; putrid; rancid; rank; redolent; reeking; repulsive; rotten; smelly; stale; stinking; strong; stuffy; sulfurous; vile