smelling

present participle of smell

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Recent Examples of smelling These stories inspired the medieval belief that smelling rosemary on Christmas Eve would bring a year of good luck, health, and happiness. Nina Foster, JSTOR Daily, 20 Dec. 2024 The sticky, putrid-smelling slime that coats its surface contains the mushroom’s spores. Scott Travers, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024 Some prefer the easy, maintenance-free artificial trees while others prefer the real, Christmas-pine smelling tree. Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smelling
Verb
  • There is no restaurant as yet, although some restauranters are sniffing around.
    Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Soon, investors began sniffing around.
    Kyle Khan-Mullins, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Chip, sensing something is wrong, gently approaches his older sister, nudging and licking her face in an apparent attempt to comfort her.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
  • His creation of one of the largest censorship algorithms reflects that, as does his recent pivot sensing a shift in the power axis.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Lake-effect snowstorms occur when cold, dry air travels over open water, sucking up moisture that is released when the air mass hits land.
    Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Advertisement California Kids are sucking down baby food pouches at record rates.
    Kate Sequeira, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • According to the lawsuit, inhaling Galaxy Gas causes euphoria but also leads to long-term physical effects and disorders, including memory loss.
    Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024
  • It can also be spread through eating, drinking or inhaling anything that contains the live virus like raw, unpasteurized milk.
    Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • American Baptist missionaries in the 1800s converted Indians and Burmese to the faith, and churches in the Milwaukee area are seeing the effects of those conversions today, especially among Burmese refugees.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Despite seeing their four-game win streak broken, quarterback Baker Mayfield and coach Todd Bowles agree the Bucs will be ready to finish the season strong.
    Rick Stroud, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • For those who don't know the back story, the pretty colors might get in the way of accurately perceiving this bike.
    Mike Hanlon, New Atlas, 23 Dec. 2024
  • All that needs to happen are people perceiving moral infractions.
    Callum Booth, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The 18 course tasting menu comes as a series of tiny plates, with snow crab from Norway, squid from the West coast, a bye-catch from the shrimp trawlers’ nets, and bleak roe from Lake Mälaren.
    Heather Farmbrough, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The company, which brews its own beer and operates tasting rooms in Chicago and Milwaukee, is also a brewery incubator, helping launch other breweries and beverage brands.
    Gary Stoller, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024

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“Smelling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smelling. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.

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