"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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 23
(1) smoke, marijuana, cigarette
Kolokacji: 3
(2) blood, flesh, hair, skin
Kolokacji: 4
(4) rat, shit
Kolokacji: 2
(5) salt, cinnamon
Kolokacji: 2
(7) fear, sweat, trouble
Kolokacji: 3
(10) water, urine, vomit
Kolokacji: 3
(11) thing, bread, money
Kolokacji: 3
(12) death, decay, mildew
Kolokacji: 3
(13) rain, snow
Kolokacji: 2
(14) oil, sulfur
Kolokacji: 2
(15) fire, cooking, rank
Kolokacji: 3
1. smell fire = ogień zapachu smell fire
2. smell cooking = zapach gotowanie smell cooking
3. smell rank = stopień zapachu smell rank
  • I could smell him, rank and eager.
  • There were machine smells everywhere, raw and rank and difficult to sort through.
  • She smelled rank and stale, even though the breeze and the pace pushed her scent away from, not toward, him.
  • It was beginning to smell rank, like the inside of a gym locker; they spent too much time in their suits.
  • She smelled his closeness, rank and foxy.
  • Steam smelling rank and fetid geysered from cracks that split the hardened earth.
  • And his pipe- still smells rank.
  • And it smelled rank enough, God wot!
  • She models different outfits to select the most flattering; he sniffs through dirty laundry to pick the shirt that smells least rank.
  • The only drawback was that the air circulation system didn't seem to work very well- the station smelled rank, stale, and close.
(16) wood, coffee
Kolokacji: 2
(17) victory, profit
Kolokacji: 2
(18) distance, weakness
Kolokacji: 2
(19) gunpowder, cordite, chemical
Kolokacji: 3
(20) onion, garlic
Kolokacji: 2
(21) woodsmoke
Kolokacji: 1
(22) rose, jasmine
Kolokacji: 2
(23) flower, honeysuckle
Kolokacji: 2
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 • ...

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