Example sentences for: scents

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

  • After screening 500 scents, his team selected a fragrance they named "Madeleine," after Paris' most noisome station.

  • In front of a cozy fire on a winter's night in the library of one of John Cheever's country houses, on the beach at Waikiki, even on a New York or London commuter train, finding Legerdemain in Two Senses and False Scents can be fun and games for all, and all you need is (usually) some printed matter or even just an inventive mind.

  • The reader wins because he is right--it is up to the writer to ensure that the reader should not be given any False Scents . Here are two additional ones to the four examples Fowler gives that cause a reader to go down the wrong track in a sentence, ending in a sort of double-take:

  • Inspired by these findings as well as by ancient perfume recipes preserved in the writings of Pliny the Elder, a fragrance expert in Florida, Irene Saltzman, has re-created four historic scents for popular use.

  • By all means read Fowler's delightful statement of affairs about False Scents --he generates a wonderfully, though quite unwitting, humorous cameo of writer and reader virtually calling each other fools.


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