[
UK
/sˈɛnt/
]
[ US /ˈsɛnt/ ]
[ US /ˈsɛnt/ ]
NOUN
- an odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced
- any property detected by the olfactory system
- a distinctive odor that is pleasant
VERB
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apply perfume to
She perfumes herself every day - cause to smell or be smelly
-
catch the scent of; get wind of
The dog nosed out the drugs
How To Use scent In A Sentence
- I learned how to negotiate fights between adolescent girls without making it seem like parental interference.
- You see that you're undershooting and so, leaving the throttle as is, you attempt to flatten your descent path by lifting the nose a bit - and you enter the region of reverse command.
- Diving underweighted can lead to buoyant ascents at the end of the dive, so I am not advocating that everyone knocks a couple of kilos off the next time they dive.
- Stink gases in sewage farm of oil refinery pollute environment and influence scent of people. Adsorbents can be used to deodorize the stink gases.
- It was a simple rectangle of crudely mounded basalt rocks, a distinctive arrangement reminiscent of the way Samoans and other Polynesians marked their dead in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic semi-literate adolescent.
- The pouring of pure water scented with jasmine oil washes away worries.
- I got off it and he was incandescent with rage, much of which was to impress the owners. The Sun
- The convalescent child was penned up in the house by his parent.
- The difference in turn-on time would generally not be noticeable for standard household incandescent bulbs, since they turn on very quickly.