Sentence examples for false scent from inspiring English sources

The air smelled sweet — it wasn't a confectionery sweetness, or the false scent of air freshener, either, but the smell of wood and wood smoke, pipe tobacco, booze.

She's a devoted layer of "false scents" as described by the lexicographer HW Fowler, ramshackle sentences where the intended meaning isn't the only possible one.

I even began to mutter that the real secret that Rex Stout had been screening by his false scents and interminable divagations was a meagreness of imagination of which one only came to realize the full horror when the last chapter had left one blank.

These include laying a false fox scent, which the riders then pursue.

This is sad, not only because it shuts out those with better voices than abs, but also because it makes sexuality dull, as false and uniform as the scent of deodorant.

The bounce from winning a primary seems to be fading more and more quickly — to the point that it may throw the forecast off the scent, representing a false dawn rather than real momentum.

We, therefore, analyzed whether the sniffing behavior of detection dogs differs according to the olfactory detection parameters noted (true positives, true negatives, false positives, and false negatives) during a scent-detection task.

So the company puts out false public information designed to throw people off the scent".

Two conditions contained decoy scents (food/toy) to encourage dog interest in a false location (dog influence).

I was the one, after all, who once bore the humiliation of a correction when I wrote of "the scent of new forsythia" in a story about a February false spring.

In the current study, there was no target scent present, so that any alert identified by handlers was considered a false alert.