"smell" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The air was dry and heavily scented with a strong piney smell.
- Studies have shown that chemicals called terpenes in the pine needles - that is what gives them their piney smell - interfere with bacteria that convert nitrogen in dead wood into a form that plants can use.
- Aegon's Garden had a pleasant piney smell to it, and tall dark trees rose on every side.
- The needles everywhere, scratching at his bare face and falling down the back of his neck, the sticky sap on his hands, the sharp piney smell of it.
- It was quiet here, and there was a pleasant piney smell.
- Will snapped off a twig, and the piney resinous smell stayed strongly on his fingers.
- He smelled the odor of the pine boughs under him, the piney smell of the crushed needles and the sharper odor of the resinous sap from the cut limbs.
- The darting reflections of the fire on the Christmas tree ornaments annoyed him and the piney smell in the warm room cloyed in his nostrils.
- Eventually, my father took me camping in the White Mountains in New Hampshire, where I discovered that along with the pleasant attributes of outdoor life - the crackle of the fire, the sound of the wind in the trees, the piney smell of the campsite - came some rather difficult logistics.
- A piney smell met her on the stairs, and she thought how things would have started growing as the nights began to shrink.
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