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smelling salts

NOUN
  1. 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:
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