SCENT in a Sentence

Learn SCENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

123 example sentences for SCENT, such as:

1. There was a fresh sweet scent on the air.
2. 'The scent is what I object to,' he said.
3. I let my lungs fill with the scented air.
4. Lie back and luxuriate in the scented oil.
5. They were at fault too, and off the scent.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scent
 n.  distinctive odor that is pleasant; fragrance or perfume
Classic Sentence: (108 in 8 pages)
1  When these fellows are at fault they come to me, and I manage to put them on the right scent.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  As I watched him I was irresistibly reminded of a pure-blooded well-trained foxhound as it dashes backwards and forwards through the covert, whining in its eagerness, until it comes across the lost scent.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3  What amuses me is to think of Lestrade, who had started off upon the wrong scent.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
4  They rolled in the dew, they cropped mouthfuls of the sweet summer grass, they kicked up clods of the black earth and snuffed its rich scent.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
5  They were at fault too, and off the scent.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
6  Even she caught the faint, tarry scent of the flowers.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
7  They had a faint scent of apple-blossom.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
8  'The scent is what I object to,' he said.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
9  There was a fresh sweet scent on the air.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
10  Depend on it, they're on the scent down there; and that if he moved, he'd blow upon the thing at once.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  One pound, said Fagin, wishing to interest him in the scent as much as possible.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
12  Of all the horrors that rose with an ill scent upon the morning air, that was the foulest and most cruel.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
13  They'll never expect to nab me there, after this country scent.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
14  It was a stagnant, warm, and misty night, full of all the heavy perfumes of new vegetation not yet dried by hot sun, and among these particularly the scent of the fern.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
15  Three miles on he came to a spot where a soft perfume was wafted across his path, and he stood still for a moment to inhale the familiar scent.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
Example Sentence:
1  On summer evenings the flowers gave forth an almost intoxicating scent.
2  It's you and your scent like a drug to me.
3  New Year should be a time of banked-up fines, the scent of flowers and wine, good talk, good memories and loyalties renewed.
4  Christmas should be a time of banked-up fines,the scent of flowers and wine,good talk,good memories andloyalties renewed.
5  Ants follow a scent trail laid down previously.
6  The hounds had lost the scent of the fox near the river.
7  Female ants release pheromones from their scent glands.
8  The scent of her perfume lingered on in the room.
9  This scientist thinks he's on the scent of a cure for heart disease.
10  How fragrant were the steam of the beverage, and the scent of the toast!
11  A herb is a plant that is valued for qualities such as medicinal properties, flavor, scent.
12  A lark is singing over head, and the air is filled with the scent of hay.
13  I let my lungs fill with the scented air.
14  Lie back and luxuriate in the scented oil.
15  In addition, many soaps and shampoos come in delicious scents that can be tempting for a child.