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Example sentences for "odors"

Lexicographically close words:
odore; odorem; odoriferous; odorless; odorous; odour; odourless; odours; odule; odylic
  1. Tricked out in various green, woods and prairies slumbered or sighed restlessly under torrid heat that extracted their essential essences, weighting the heavy air with intense odors of curing grasses.

  2. One learns the real flavor of food out here where the odors of restaurants are but a memory.

  3. Mingled odors of pine and fern floated to us from the nearby forests.

  4. Far from the city's dust and heat, I get but sounds and odors sweet.

  5. Then the fragrances of holiness exhaled, and the sweet odors were diffused.

  6. Thou hast come to Acca, thou hast seen my teachings, thou hast heard my explanations and thou hast smelled the sweet odors of the Kingdom.

  7. Then let me quaff the foamy tide, And through the dance meandering glide; Let me imbibe the spicy breath Of odors chafed to fragrant death; Or from the lips of love inhale A more ambrosial, richer gale!

  8. Never doth a sweeter song Steal the breezy lyre along, When the wind, in odors dying, Woos it with enamor'd sighing.

  9. Let the flower-beds all lie waking, And the odors shut up there, From their downy prisons breaking, Fly abroad thro sea and air.

  10. The shower Fell glowing through the spheres; While all around new tints of bliss, New odors and new light, Enriched its radiant flow.

  11. Vague odors of sandalwood and wistaria swam in the soft, cool air.

  12. The sandy road gave place to an uneven dirt one and the smell of the sea to the mingled odors of dust and gasoline, with now and then a whiff of clover fields or flowering wayside bush.

  13. The associative power of odors is well known, and so the cupboard and particularly the china duck which you say it contained became associated in your mind with the strange new smell.

  14. Into this torrid track, Whence no one turneth back With his first wanderer's song Yet on his lips, thy odors and thy dews, To deck these dwarfed yews.

  15. Altogether Roger's bang-up Christmas began with terrific bustle, with Annie, from whose kitchen already floated odors that set the insatiable Muggs to sniffing, by far the busiest of them all.

  16. The whole house is dirty, and is filled with the mingled odors from the cooking-stoves and the sinks.

  17. Out of the restaurants there float delicious odors of cooking meats, making her hungrier still.

  18. The air is loaded with blasphemy and curses, and is heavy with such foul odors that one unaccustomed to it cannot remain five minutes in the place.

  19. Odors from the food remain long after the remnants are disposed of, and where one has been occupied for a long period the accumulation of refuse becomes so great that a new structure is indispensable in order to get rid of it.

  20. Somewhere high in the air Would thy wing seek a home 'mid sunny skies, In mead or mossy dell-- If there thy odors longest, sweetest rise.

  21. Sweeter these zephyrs float than all the showers Of costly odors in our royal bowers.

  22. One morning, when a pall of smoke enveloped the city and the odors of coal-gas refused to lift their nauseating poison through the heavy air, Luther, chilled with dew and famished, awoke to a happier life.

  23. The walls were hung with rare and beautiful skins; the very floor made rich with huge bear robes, their permeating odors subdued by heavy perfumes brought, like the spices, from St. Louis.

  24. The wind that fanned his face was filled with the spicy odors of the sea.

  25. The sun had set, the cotton-pickers were in, and odors of supper were afloat.

  26. On pleasant days we threw open the windows on the street to let in the warm air and sunshine, but this did not seem to drive away the musty odors of the interior.

  27. Within the wall the odors of flowers were even heavier, more oppressively sweet than without, and the silence surpassed the silence of the outer city even as the stillness of the sleepers here surpassed the stillness of those yonder.

  28. His nostrils, always sensitive to the odors of flowers, drank it in rapturously.

  29. He leaned from the window which looked upon a plot of flowers whose many odors rising, enveloped him in incense sweet as the incense from the censers of the angels when the spirit of his Virginia was near.

  30. A breeze laden with odors caught from the many rose-gardens and the heavier-scented magnolias, now in full bloom, it had come across, stirred the curtain.

  31. Soon the delightful odors of supper began to pervade the atmosphere.

  32. Then the window seemed to open with a rattle, and he again felt the cool odors of the forest; but he awoke to find that the lady had only opened her window for a breath of fresh air.

  33. The cool fragrance of the woodland depths crept in with it until the steep of human warmth, the reek of human clothing, and the lingering odors of stale human victual were swept away in that incorruptible and omnipotent breath.

  34. And odors from the springing grass, The sweet birch and the sassafras, Upon the scarce-felt breezes pass.

  35. Strange trees and fruits above him hung, Strange odors filled the sultry air, Strange birds upon the branches swung, Strange insect voices murmured there.

  36. Bring us the airs of hills and forests, The sweet aroma of birch and pine, Give us a waft of the north-wind laden With sweethrier odors and breath of kine!

  37. I muse on joys that cannot cease, Pure spaces filled with living beams, White lilies of eternal peace, Whose odors haunt my dreams.

  38. The pearly lustre of the moon went out: The mossy banks and the meandering paths, The happy flowers and the repining trees, Were seen no more: the very roses' odors Died in the arms of the adoring airs.

  39. The clean air of night was polluted with abominable odors as it swept over the exudations of those glistening, pulpy masses.

  40. The odors that had seemed the utmost of vileness now came to him a hundred times worse.

  41. Tall lights burned at the head and feet, and fragrant perfumes diffused their odors from silver censers.

  42. Herein lies the secret of the want of drainage, and of the unpleasant and unwholesome odors which are constantly saluting the senses and challenging the remarks of strangers.

  43. For the odors of these ghastly charnel houses there may be words in Lithuanian, but there are none in English.

  44. They were not sure that it was unpleasant, this odor; some might have called it sickening, but their taste in odors was not developed, and they were only sure that it was curious.

  45. There were mists above the water, and the light gained progress slowly; still, it gained, and presently the salt sea odors came rolling in from the bay.

  46. One of the men fetched him--a fat, cringing man, with a discursive eye and the odors of many kinds of meats upon him.

  47. Odors from strong bacon and boiling coffee contended against the cut-plug fumes from the vespertine pipe.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "odors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.