Sentence examples for sudden scent from inspiring English sources

The trouble is that the sudden scent of victory can cloud judgment.

There is a sudden scent of blossoms.

Pastoral scene of the gallant South, The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh, And the sudden smell of burning flesh!

Pastoral scene of the gallant south The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh Then the sudden smell of burning flesh!

"Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh / Then the sudden smell of burning flesh," Holiday sings in a song that imagines an idyllic south.

Hunger and cold bring a hallucinatory quality to perceptions, a sudden and impossible snatch of the scent of coffee from a ventilation shaft as the senses flicker.

The arrival of predatory mammals thus may have imposed selection on a suite of lizard attributes, with a sudden selective advantage to reducing the production and dissemination of scent cues detectable by such predators, to using retreat sites inaccessible to such predators, and to responding behaviorally to predator cues in ways that enhance lizard survival (e.g., Hoare et al. 2007).

The relevance of olfactory cues during the circulation of resources within the hive was further shown by the sudden decrease in trophallaxis events in those assays in which the scent was withdrawn from the food source.

One such account, of the burning of poui sticks for the rough village sport of stick-fighting, captures the way the scent of the sticks opens up in Mr Biswas a sudden seam of memory.

The sudden blast of sunshine after months of heavy rain has brought everything into bloom, and there's a heady scent of curry plant and dill, marigold and mint.

If Labour, scenting blood, could force a last-minute defeat onto the government along the lines of Ed Miliband's sudden about-turn on Syria, that would be devastating.