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• During smelting, scum rises to the surface and is then removed by the smelter.From the entry scum
• The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron.From the entry industry
• The milk smelt funny so I poured it away.From the entry funny
• He gave me a hint that my breath smelt.From the entry hint
• The drunkard smelt like a brewery.From the entry smell
• They'd just got a delivery and it smelt lovely, and some oven bottoms as well.2017, Pam Howes, The Lost Daughter of Liverpool. From the entry oven bottom
• He looked like he was having real trouble focusing his eyes, and he smelt very strange.2015 September 1, James Roy, Billy Mack's War, Univ. of Queensland Press, →ISBN. From the entry how's it
• For example: you smell peat-smoke, and you recall some occasion when you smelt it before.2015, Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind: Top Philosophy Collections. From the entry peat-smoke
• The upcoming year promises to reveal several tracks of grimey jungalist haze and aggressively smelt percussion.2007, Urb - Volume 17, Issues 143-147, page 52. From the entry jungalist
• Hooligan (smelt) are often spotted from the point as they come in with the tide.2004, Kenai Peninsula Tour Guidebook, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry hooligan
• We caught lots of hooligans (smelt) and got through the year on those.1993, James H. Barker, quoting Larry John, “Smelt Running Season, Fish Hitting: Qusiirvik, Kaugun”, in Always Getting Ready…. From the entry hooligan
• If you've ever smelt bad eggs you'll know it's not a nice experience.1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 29. From the entry blow
• The city also has mining, smelting, power and construction industries and facilities for industrial and mining research.1981 December 24 [1981 December 11], “Gansu Electrolytic Nickel Production”, in China Report: Economic Affairs, number 192, Foreign…. From the entry Jinchang
• He was rather unshaven as well and smelt strongly of shag.1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet; 2), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 535. From the entry shag
• I saw the thin pencil of smoke before I smelt the heated wax.1968, CQ; the Radio Amateur's Journal, volume 24, numbers 7-12, page 52. From the entry big switch
• Although its closeness was mitigated with lavender-water, the atmosphere smelt faintly of rotten apples.1933, Ethel Lina White, chapter 5, in Some Must Watch. From the entry lavender water
• But even on windless days the air always smelt of something under-earth: sulphur, iron, coal, or acid.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter II, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC. From the entry windless
• It smelt to her “graveyardy.” She was sure that the windows were never opened.1924, Hugh Walpole, “Agatha Secretly . . .”, in The Old Ladies, London: Macmillan and Co., […], page 141. From the entry graveyardy
• Alfred Inglethorp that astute gentleman would have—in your so expressive idiom—‘smelt a rat’!1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 178. From the entry smell a rat
• All the wood used was new and speckless, and smelt sweet and clean.1919, George Herbert Fosdike Nichols (a.k.a. Quex), Pushed and the Return Push. From the entry speckless
• It looked like a tomb and smelt pretty nigh as musty and dead-and-gone.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC. From the entry dismal
• These concentrates are then smelted to produce copper blister, which has a purity of up to 99 percent.2025 April 1, Dorjdari Namkhaijantsan, Zoljargal Naranbaatar, “Copper and the energy transition”, in Copper Sector Expansion in Mongolia…. From the entry semi
• He smelt freshly fried kachoris rescued from the wedding buffet.2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 54. From the entry freshly
• His trailer smelt horrible, it had the stench of soggy cheap plywood that had been soaked in a soupful of turds.2018, Ed Wagemann, edited by Anne Moss, Gentrification: The Early Works of Ed Wagemann, →ISBN, page 56. From the entry soupful
• The killers smelt the coffee—and woke up.2017, Hideo Furukawa, translated by David Boyd, “Chronicle: 2000”, in Slow Boat: A Slow Boat to China RMX, London: Pushkin Press, →ISBN…. From the entry bucks
• And don't forget the smell of the fish-and-chipper on a cold winter's night; sometimes they even smelt better than they tasted!2015 March 3, Éamonn MacThomáis, Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin, The O'Brien Press, →ISBN. From the entry fish-and-chipper
• They positioned their fires upwind of Nathanial so as to ensure he smelt the food cooking on the open spit fires.2014, John Gearing, The Journeyman Sagas: The Quest for Fallenjour, →ISBN. From the entry spit fire
• I smelt about so I know their camp roundside about and can get about in the dark, quiet like a fox.2012, S. D. Crockett, After the Snow, →ISBN. From the entry roundside
• Cuz every one I've tried tasted like smelted tire.2008, Wil Forbis, Acid Logic: A Decade of Humorous Writing on Pop Culture, Trash Cinema, and Rebel Music, page 208. From the entry vegetarian
• Larry smelt good to him, most times, ripe and earthy.2004, Wendy Jane Evans, “An Independent Cuss”, in The Diggings Are Silent, Interactive Publications, published 2007, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry on the nose
• And smelt the clean lineny smell of her.1997, Peter Cameron, Andorra, New York: Picador, Part Two, Chapter Fifteen, p. 175. From the entry lineny
• Because of the low lead content of the local ore, lead is purchased from other places for the purpose of smelting.1966 [1637], Sung Ying-Hsing, “The Metals”, in E-tu Zen Sun, Shiou-Chuan Sun, transl., Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century…. From the entry Ch'u-hsiung
• The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats.1949 June 8, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, Part I, Chapter I. From the entry tack
• She was old and fat and smelt of barley-water.1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “East Wind”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, page 5. From the entry barley-water
• He tore the flower gravely from its pinhold smelt its almost no smell and placed it in his heartpocket.1920, James Joyce, Ulysses. From the entry pinhold
• The industries of the Sacramento basin include mining, smelting, lumbering, dairying, grazing, orchard farming, graniculture, sugar manufacture, and fishing.1912, U.S. Government Printing Office, Congressional Serial Set. From the entry graniculture
• He hated the Professor, who smelt the rogue in him, and scourged him continually with his sharp tongue.1910, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 5, in Queen Sheba's Ring. From the entry sharp tongue
• Then it seemed to me that it smelt rather well.1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC. From the entry biteable
• The whole charabanc emitted a strong smell of hot stew, which my mum remembers as the most heavenly thing she had ever smelt.2022, Jacques Peretti, Little Bird of Auschwitz. From the entry charabanc
• Luke smelt danger in the air.2016, John Swain, Digging Up The Pitmen, page 164. From the entry driver

Meaning of smelt

1. noun Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.
2. noun A fool; a simpleton.
3. noun Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves heating and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.

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How do you use smelt in a sentence?

Smelt is used as a noun and verb. For example: “During smelting, scum rises to the surface and is then removed by the smelter.”

What is a short sentence with smelt?

“Luke smelt danger in the air.”

What does smelt mean?

Smelt means any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.