Word: smelling
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...thought it was part of my dream. I didn't smell anything at all," Ibazebo said...
...just the sort of thing I like. What can I say? Cold and bright, dark and drizzly, thunder and lightning, hot sun and still air--the heavens can open up and give me anything they've got. Weather is wonderfully evocative, like an old song or a familiar smell. Hot, breezy sunshine transports me to my grandparents' house in southern California, and each clear, crackling autumn day calls up every back-to-school shopping trip I've ever taken...
...most common reason for bad breath, though, is, to put it delicately, food molecules rotting in the mouth. Mouthwash masks the smell, but ultimately you have to get rid of the stuff. Brushing and flossing remove larger particles, but dentists suggest brushing the back of the tongue as well, where food residues and bacteria congregate. The microscopic bits that remain must be flushed down by drink or saliva (morning breath occurs because salivation shuts down at night). But if you're waiting for a true cure, it won't happen until we eat all our food in pill form...
...that housed the treasure I had come to find. The opening in the wall rose 100 feet and at stretched at least 150 feet across. I felt like an ant entering my colony's hill. The building's misting system--a water and natural chemical mixture to keep the smell down--was turned on and a hazy aura emanated from within. Dapples of light coming through the massive glass skylights illuminated certain areas of the inside den, making the whole place seem magical and somewhat poetic...
Verbs in English come in two flavors. Regular verbs like walk and smell form the past tense by adding -ed: Today I walk, yesterday I walked. English has thousands of them, and new ones arise every day, thanks to our ability to apply rules instinctively. When people first heard to spam, to mosh and to diss, they did not run to the dictionary to look up the past tenses; they knew they were spammed, moshed and dissed...