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Discover LudwigThe word "scent" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you are referring to an odour or a smell that a person, animal, or thing gives off. For example, "The tantalizing scent of freshly-baked cookies filled the room."
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Memory is a strange and unreliable thing, shaped often by a vignette, captured in a scent, a sound, a shard of emotion rather than factual detail.
But you may prefer to loll by the pool, breathing in the scent of jasmine.
Ten years ago, before foxhunting was banned, the symphony of squeals would have signified that the 40-strong pack of hounds had hit on the scent of a fox.
I scrambled down palm-fringed dirt tracks, the air heavy with the scent of coriander.
According to Mario Valdes, who led the scent design team, the Guevara and Chávez families have both given approval for the names to be used.
"Even your boss, strait-laced, hatchet-faced Mr George Lowery, why even he can smell the rancid, pungent scent of sex all over you," he barks at her during one scene.
And yes, when you remove the top from a bowl of steamed egg custard, the scent is black truffles, at once funky and pure, over the ocean scent of Dungeness crab.
"Activists in the SNP scent blood," Rennie said.
The trays of English Breakfast and Japanese popcorn tea, and the Diptyque scent emanating from the candelabras in the New York City public library show venue, set an elegant tone.
The footage, which will be presented to MSPs in Holyrood on Wednesday, shows dogs in full cry apparently following a scent and appearing to be encouraged to do so by members of the hunt.
Gusts of wind carried the scent of ash and the acrid smell of burning flesh.
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