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scent

[sent] / sɛnt /




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Dogs normally interpret people using many signals at once, including facial expressions, body language, tone of voice, and scent.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

An illustration shows middle C having the scent of a rose; the C two octaves higher, jasmine; in the rumbly bass, clove and vanilla.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

I wanted to resemble the relaxed browsers who paused over a melon because its scent had summoned them.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2026

Using Indigenous ecological knowledge – a plant's colour and scent, for example, or the shade cover of trees - he can verify information in the satellite images from Yebra's team.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

More than once, I’d opened the storm cellar to the beckon of neon and the scent of buffalo stew.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Nadira Goffe argues that watching the film in 4DX—which features, among other things, scents, moving chairs, and sprays of water—is the superior way to experience the epic adventure.

From Slate Jul. 28, 2026

Nearly a year later it introduced a ’90s edition, with scents including “VHS rental ‘n chill” and “mall food court.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

The New York-based business makes a variety of products, ranging from scents for perfumes to ingredients used in food that can help digestion.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

Despite being marketed as an eau de parfum for men, the fragrance’s notes leaned more toward typically unisex scents.

From Salon May 27, 2026

The air itself is ideal, clear and crisp and cool, permeated with scents and sounds that entice and enchant one patron after another.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

They reminisce about the brown bread: those sweet, dark little wheat loaves scented with honey, molasses, cocoa powder and espresso.

From Salon Jun. 22, 2026

“We can never go back to the old days where the air was clean and pure and sweet and scented with orange blossoms.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 26, 2026

There was nothing artificial about the atmosphere as every Macclesfield fan scented another shock in the cold night air.

From BBC Feb. 16, 2026

A big get at the time was putting highly scented Yankee Candles on shelves for the first time in 2017.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 19, 2026

From the bathroom across the way, through its half-open door, drifted a humid scented air and a hollow dripping sound.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

The Japanese accomplish subtle scenting with nioi-bukuro, breathable sachets.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 14, 2026

It's framed with trees laden with citrus fruits and row after row of bushy herbs, the rosemary and sage scenting the air.

From BBC Dec. 7, 2023

Signs that your feline friend is bonded to you include scenting by rubbing their head on you, showing their belly, blinking and letting you get close.

From Scientific American Dec. 21, 2022

In the summer, the hardliners struck, scenting weakness in a man now abandoned by many liberal allies.

From Reuters Aug. 30, 2022

The adults were looking around, and then the woman put the monkey down, and it began to cast this way and that on the grass as if it were scenting or looking for footprints.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman




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