FRAGRANCE in a Sentence

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34 example sentences for FRAGRANCE, such as:

1. This perfume has a light, fresh fragrance.
2. Elizabeth David enthuses about the taste, fragrance and character of Provencal cuisine.
3. His breath in her face was strong with Bourbon whisky mingled with a faint fragrance of mint.
4. There was a faint wild fragrance of sweet shrub on the breeze and the world smelled good enough to eat.
5. As Lily turned, and settled to completer rest, a strand of her hair swept Gerty's cheek with its fragrance.

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 Meanings and Examples of FRAGRANCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fragrance
 n.  scent; aroma; distinctive odor that is pleasant
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  His breath in her face was strong with Bourbon whisky mingled with a faint fragrance of mint.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  In spite of her choked-back tears, Scarlett thrilled to the never- failing magic of her mother's touch, to the faint fragrance of lemon verbena sachet that came from her rustling silk dress.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  There entered with her the faint fragrance of lemon verbena sachet, which seemed always to creep from the folds of her dresses, a fragrance that was always linked in Scarlett's mind with her mother.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  There was a faint wild fragrance of sweet shrub on the breeze and the world smelled good enough to eat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  Scarlett knew that the fragrance carried on the faint breeze came from the grove of great oaks in the rear of the big house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  The lamp in the parlor window threw odd golden shadows onto the dark vine-shrouded porch, and the matted tangle of yellow climbing roses and honeysuckle made a wall of mingled fragrance about her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
7  Surely, when she entered that room, Mother would again be sitting there before the secretary and would look up, quill poised, and rise with sweet fragrance and rustling hoops to meet her tired daughter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  A faint dab of rouge on her cheeks and a fainter fragrance of cologne made her a charming picture, as long as she did not alight from the buggy and show her figure.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  There was John Wilkes, too; and Gerald, red with brandy; and a whisper and a fragrance that was Ellen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
10  The fragrance of the late blossoms seemed an emanation of the tranquil scene, a landscape tutored to the last degree of rural elegance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
11  As Lily turned, and settled to completer rest, a strand of her hair swept Gerty's cheek with its fragrance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
12  The dust became golden in the low sun; the street was filled with the fragrance of burning leaves.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
13  When he had inhaled enough of the fragrance of the soothing weed, he passed the instrument into the hands of the scout.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
14  Heaven was still and faintly luminous and the air sweet to breathe, as in a thicket drenched with showers; and amid peace and shimmering lights and quiet fragrance he made a covenant with his heart.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
15  The candles on the high altar had been extinguished but the fragrance of incense still floated down the dim nave.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence:
1  Elizabeth David enthuses about the taste, fragrance and character of Provencal cuisine.
2  This perfume has a light, fresh fragrance.
3  The locust-trees were in bloom and the fragrance of the blossom filled the air.