be redolent of
Example Sentences
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It is a mournful song whose sobbing phrases would be redolent of regret even in the most cheerful of places.
From BBC • Jun. 18, 2013
His room might be redolent of animal skins, but Ben himself was not; he had a beaver's love for the water.
From Nobody's Child by Dejeans, Elizabeth
The whole room seemed to be redolent of the grace of a charming grande dame of old France.
From Border Ghost Stories by Pease, Howard
He reached several times for his pipe, and remembered when he had touched it that the lips with which he greeted Nancy ought not to be redolent of tobacco.
From In the Year of Jubilee by Gissing, George
So, were this an unfallen world, every object and event would be redolent of God’s goodness.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward
