follow a scent
Example Sentences
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Scent detection canines searching for a suspect can look past all the other odors they encounter to follow a scent trail left behind by the person they are pursuing.
From Scientific American • Sep. 26, 2023
The dog liked to go off and follow a scent, but she usually always returned when called, Ms Belton said.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2022
He—nor a better dog—couldn’t follow a scent through such snow.
From The Corner House Girls Snowbound by Hill, Grace Brooks
We had lost the Cossacks, but the wolves were on our track; aye, thousands of them—leaping, barking, snarling from their fastnesses, and bending their heads to the chase like hounds that follow a scent.
From The Great White Army by Pemberton, Max, Sir
Even when this union was not attained, James was reconciled to the miracle-workers partly by his great charity, and partly by his hunter’s instinct to follow a scent, for he believed discoveries to be imminent.
From Character and Opinion in the United States by Santayana, George
