Get A Noseful (Verb)
Meaning
Smell strongly and intensely.
Classification
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling.
Examples
- As she walked into the paint-splattered room, she got a noseful of the strong fumes emanating from the wet walls.
- When the firework exploded, the entire crowd got a noseful of smoke and soot.
- Upon opening the fridge, he got a noseful of rotting garbage that had been left unattended for days.
- As the city trash truck drove by, pedestrians on the sidewalk got a noseful of putrid waste.
- The ripening compost heap in the backyard was potent enough to give anyone who walked by a noseful of decay.