NOUN
- a pungent preparation of ammonium carbonate and perfume; sniffed as a stimulant to relieve faintness
How To Use smelling salts In A Sentence
- He remembers an elderly nurse waving under his nose what he presumed were smelling salts and his initial instinct to push her away. Times, Sunday Times
- He would feel her pulse, chafe her wrists, apply restoratives and smelling salts, burn feathers under her nose.
- I gave him a sniff of smelling salts to bring him round.
- An hour later I awoke in my chamber with the help of smelling salts.
- He says: 'At the hospital they did tests like slamming a book to make noise and using smelling salts. The Sun
- Each presidential tweet or comment is followed by a dramatic inhalation of smelling salts. Times, Sunday Times
- Henman, suffering from an upset stomach and receiving smelling salts from the trainer, pulled out a 7-6 (7-5), 6-7 (2-7), 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 win over Switzerland's USATODAY.com - Venus, Serena, Hewitt breeze into quarterfinals
- These days, bone in any form seems to be off restaurant menus for fear of upsetting lily-livered diners who might need smelling salts after being reminded that what they are eating once had something to do with an animal.
- They fetch a sponge and smelling salts, and go upstairs to the room where Grace Poole usually stays.
- Near faint at the thought, a certain slew of words had the effect of smelling salts and I perked right up. French Word-A-Day: