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Meanings of scented in English
Having a natural fragrance.
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Examples for "sweet"
Examples for "sweet"
1
I'll try something different this morning, she thought: sweet grass and chamomile.
2
Watson, do you know this lady? said a sweet, concerned female voice.
3
She was sweet and simple and beautiful and blank as clear water.
4
Naturally companies that make sweet products, including Hershey's and Coca-Cola, oppose this.
5
The most common type is clear and very mild-evena bit sweet.
1
She laid the snowy perfumed bells in his outstretched hand, and said:
2
Youth and love reigned in each heart, and perfumed the very air.
3
Her mute protest, however, couldn't disguise the passion that perfumed her skin.
4
Your nostrils are perfumed with the breezes of the paradise of Abhá.
5
Traditionally, perfumed water is poured on to hands in a purifying ritual.
1
The wine is tainted with sulphur in its odorous union with hydrogen.
2
The dinner-table had been set out of doors, underneath the odorous cedar-tree.
3
It was one of the moist, pleasantly odorous nights of early spring.
4
The short turf, fragrant with odorous herbs, rose and fell elastic, underfoot.
5
No trim garden at Rood Hall, no scent from odorous orange blossoms.
1
It was cabbage soup, and its odoriferous steam filled the parsonage dining-room.
2
Greta instructed the women to massage the odoriferous stuff into their heads.
3
And you happen to be one powerfully odoriferous group of peculiars.
4
He struck a sulphur match and touched its odoriferous flame to his candle.
5
Every evening a slave carefully filled this lamp with odoriferous oil.
1
Lotus-plants abounded in them, and a low, sweet-scented plant covered their banks.
2
I stroked it with sweet-scented oil, feeling the long muscles under the skin.
3
The air is fragrant with the dying breath of clover and sweet-scented grass.
4
I hear the wild wood-birds pouring their sprightly carols on the sweet-scented morning.
5
The fragrance from the pine, sweet-scented fern and numerous mints was more pronounced.
1
Rose took the sweet-smelling square of linen and tried to smile again.
2
Hanna ran her hands through the closely cropped, sweet-smelling soccer field grass.
3
Moss and ferns made soft and sweet-smelling beds, and trees roofed them.
4
There were high hedgerows and the grass was long, soft, and sweet-smelling.
5
He loved to present beautiful and sweet-smelling flowers to His numerous visitors.
Usage of scented in English
1
It was in the spring-time; and the hawthorn blossoms scented the air.
2
It smelled strongly of new leather and coconut oil and pine-scented disinfectant.
3
Yes, but I have not swallowed the hook; I scented the trick.
4
Choose from quality Christmas decorations, scented candles, wreaths, lamps and table decorations.
5
He breathed in the flower-scented perfume of it-andlay as if dead.
6
One of the horses had scented the travelers on the ridge top.
7
The herd of men in those days scented fresh pastures from afar.
8
Orange groves lined the shore, and the fragrant jasmine scented the air.
9
Went to the scented mornings, to the nights of the satin moon
10
But the other masters scented a move for his benefit in this.
11
He liked his coffee strong, and this tasted like hot coffee-scented water.
12
The smoke of the domestic hearth has scented them through and through.
13
Nish sank into the warm scented water with a sigh of bliss.
14
They may have scented disaster and taken the bull by the horns.
15
You scented the chance of a public scandal and flew to it.
16
He sat astride a thick limb in scented darkness and considered further.
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Scented across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common