"smell" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

smell verbo

smell + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 70
smell smoke • smell blood • smell one's perfume • smell a rat • smell salts • smell the odor • smell the scent • smell one's breath • ...
verbo + smell
Kolokacji: 4
begin to smell • start smelling • report smelling • stop smelling
smell + preposición
Kolokacji: 16
smell out • smell of • smell from • smell on • smell in • ...
smell + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 63
smell good • smell bad • smell sweet • smell faintly • smell fresh • smell strongly • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 12
(2) sweet, sweetly, lovely
Kolokacji: 3
1. smell faintly = zapach słabo smell faintly
2. actually smell = faktycznie zapach actually smell
3. smell vaguely = zapach trochę smell vaguely
4. smell slightly = zapach nieznacznie smell slightly
5. smell better = zapach lepiej smell better
6. practically smell = praktycznie zapach practically smell
7. smelled before = poczuć zapach wcześniej smelled before
  • How could I recognize a scent I'd never smelled before, you ask?
  • Barbara Brown had smelled like food before, but now that first flush of adrenaline kicked through her system.
  • It was the same decaying-meat stink she had smelled before.
  • Air, which he had never smelled before, flowed quietly around him.
  • It was surprising squatters hadn't smelled out the place before.
  • A rich, complex odor, nothing like any of them had smelled before.
  • But this smell was something new, something unlike anything he had smelled before.
  • Oddly, he had never really paid that much attention to how this room had smelled before.
  • The place did stink, though, like nothing I'd ever smelled before, but it wasn't any sort of gas to affect the budgie or me.
  • There was a stink she had never smelled before, sharp in her nose and scary.
8. smell alike = zapach podobnie smell alike
9. smell metallic = zapach metaliczny smell metallic
(5) strongly, powerfully
Kolokacji: 2
(8) different, differently
Kolokacji: 2
(10) sour, rancid, fragrant
Kolokacji: 3
(11) damp, dank, wet
Kolokacji: 3
(12) appetizing, pungent
Kolokacji: 2

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