smelling salts
Example Sentences
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Once the smelling salts had taken hold, the members sauntered out to look at this precocious kid.
From BBC
Another day of brilliance on Friday and the McIlroy supporters will be calling for smelling salts.
From BBC
Like you needed smelling salts to bring you back?
From New York Times
At work one day, detectives asserted in court filings, some of Ryan’s employees found him asleep in his office and needed ammonia smelling salts to wake him up.
From Washington Post
The Internet promptly reached for its smelling salts.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
