Redolent

//ˈɹɛd.ə.lənt//

"Redolent" in a Sentence (12 examples)

Tom's breath was redolent of wine and tobacco.

The dinner was served in two huge tin-plated vessels, whence rose a strong steam redolent of rancid fat.

Cookie's breath was redolent of fish.

Tom's clothes were redolent of burnt cannabis.

It was redolent of the early days of the Internet.

Most of the articles were home-made; the bread, the yellow butter, as golden as the cups to which it has given name; the thickest cream, and a honeycomb redolent of the thyme which even then echoed with the hum of the bees.

His breath is already redolent of whiskey.

Stephen, that is when the accosting figure came to close quarters, though he was not in an over sober state himself recognised Corley's breath redolent of rotten cornjuice.

But, in the country, the green fields are so joyous, the pure air so fresh, the blue sky so clear; the fine old trees, redolent of earth's loveliest mythology, when the dryades peopled their green shadows;...

But forth from sweat-shops, tenement and prison Wailed minor protests, redolent with pain.

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He said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours.

The sums are so vast, the secrecy so shocking, that “chumocracy” doesn’t begin to capture what Britain has become – redolent as we are of banana republics, the Russian oligarchy and failed states.

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