"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 • ...

frequent collocations

Kolokacji: 12

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 23

(1) smoke, marijuana, cigarette

Kolokacji: 3

(2) blood, flesh, hair, skin

Kolokacji: 4

(3) perfume, odor, scent, smell, incense, ...

Kolokacji: 8

(4) rat, shit

Kolokacji: 2

(5) salt, cinnamon

Kolokacji: 2

(6) breath, gas, air, gasoline, ozone, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(7) fear, sweat, trouble

Kolokacji: 3

1. smell one's fear = zapach czyjś strach smell one's fear

smell fear

2. smell one's sweat = zapach czyjś pot smell one's sweat

smell sweat

3. smell trouble = wyczuwać nosem kłopoty, wyczuwać nosem niebezpieczeństwo smell trouble

He glared down at us and I smelled trouble, in addition to the pong.
I could smell trouble in the making, and oddly enough it might have been avoided by a casual comment.
He could almost smell trouble coming on a soft night wind blowing across the ranch.
I've been in business long enough to smell trouble, and I made up my mind to have Janice pay me as we went along.
He had mentioned the art of smelling trouble, the hunch ability.
He was smelling trouble now, the short hairs rising on his neck.
But one of the party's youth leaders smells trouble as he campaigns in poor villages.
But Pa had smelled trouble, a gift that seldom failed him, and we were ready.
"The market smells substantial trouble from several directions," said one government bond dealer.
But when the butler smelled trouble, it was worth listening to him.

(8) food, meat, danger, bacon, fish, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(9) alcohol, tobacco, booze, herb

Kolokacji: 4

(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

(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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