"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
(5) strongly, powerfully
Kolokacji: 2
1. smell wonderful = zapach cudowny smell wonderful
2. smell strange = zapach dziwny smell strange
3. smell exactly = zapach dokładnie smell exactly
  • This didn't exactly smell like the good opening he'd been hoping for.
  • He wasn't exactly smelling his best at the moment.
  • She did not exactly smell like a rose, either.
  • Perhaps that's the American way, but it doesn't exactly smell like apple pie to voters stuck in a recession.
  • In fact, it smelled exactly like freshly washed sheets.
  • I used to have a wind-up racing car that smelled exactly like that.
  • "Do you realize that for the next five hours, our urine is going to smell exactly alike?"
  • No two people smell exactly alike - though there are similarities between races.
  • By some freak of chemistry they smelled exactly like cumin.
  • So Sandra and I don't mind if, you know, this pile doesn't smell exactly like strawberries.
4. smell odd = zapach dziwny smell odd
5. smell peculiar = zapach dziwny smell peculiar
(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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