ODOUR in a Sentence

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45 example sentences for ODOUR, such as:

1. There was a damp odour of mildew.
2. He was acutely aware of the odour of cooking oil.
3. The odour of vitamin in skin is repugnant to insects.
4. The air was permeated with the odour of burning rubber.
5. As Dorian hurried up its three rickety steps, the heavy odour of opium met him.

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 Meanings and Examples of ODOUR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
odour
 a.  any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  At the far end of the shed near the street a speck of pink light showed in the darkness and as he walked towards it he became aware of a faint aromatic odour.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  He sprang from the bed, the reeking odour pouring down his throat, clogging and revolting his entrails.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
3  The troubling odour of the long corridors of Clongowes came back to him and he heard the discreet murmur of the burning gasflames.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
4  But the trees in Stephen's Green were fragrant of rain and the rain-sodden earth gave forth its mortal odour, a faint incense rising upward through the mould from many hearts.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  At the bottom there was a dark, tunnel-like passage, through which came a deathly, sickly odour, the odour of old earth newly turned.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  We were prepared for some unpleasantness, for as we were opening the door a faint, malodorous air seemed to exhale through the gaps, but none of us ever expected such an odour as we encountered.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
7  His parents went to eight-o'clock mass every morning in Gardiner Street and the peaceful odour of Mrs. Dillon was prevalent in the hall of the house.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
8  Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In EVELINE
9  Her time was running out but she continued to sit by the window, leaning her head against the window curtain, inhaling the odour of dusty cretonne.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In EVELINE
10  On the stairs a moist pungent odour of perfumes saluted his nose: evidently Miss Delacour had come while he was out in O'Neill's.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
11  She brought them up to his bedroom, the air of which was impregnated with a personal odour, and gave them chairs at the fire.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
12  The heavy odour of incense seemed to cling about its pages and to trouble the brain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
13  There was a damp odour of mildew.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
14  Inside was a green paste, waxy in lustre, the odour curiously heavy and persistent.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
15  As Dorian hurried up its three rickety steps, the heavy odour of opium met him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
Example Sentence:
1  The air was permeated with the odour of burning rubber.
2  He was acutely aware of the odour of cooking oil.
3  The odour of vitamin in skin is repugnant to insects.
4  McGill University discovered that sensitivity to rose odour is greater in subjects that are sitting than in those lying down.