Example sentences for: redolent

How can you use “redolent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At the New York performance, the Israeli singer Esti Kenan Ofri spent most of the time shrouded in drapery and darkness at the foot of the podium, slowly rising and writhing only for the keening solo that ends the piece, a recitative redolent of Middle Eastern rites.

  • Salem Street, just north of Hanover, is another atmospheric street lined with wonderful delicatessens redolent with the scents of fresh cheeses, sausages, and pasta, newsagents selling Corriere della Sera and La Gazzetta dello Sport, and such bakeries as Bova, selling first-rate cakes and pastries at number 134.

  • (Careful feminist writers avoid unthinking use of imagery redolent of colonialism and militarism.)

  • John Travolta's empty nightclub impersonation of Bill Clinton in Primary Colors (1998) had one positive result: It gave him a jump-start on Jan Schlichtmann, the reckless personal injury lawyer at the center of A Civil Action . Travolta's Schlichtmann is much more redolent of Clinton: slick and selfish and corrupt in lots of ways but basically on the side of the angels, too proud and arrogant to change tactics when all is certainly lost.

  • Take North's celebrated score for A Streetcar Named Desire : The score's brilliance lies in the way the languorous New Orleans jazz, redolent of sin, plumes out of the dive up the street from the Kowalskis', curls along the block, and squeezes itself through a radio.


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