Use "redolent" in a sentence
redolent example sentences
redolent
1. He grasped my hand, pulled me close and in an opulent voice redolent of incinerator enquired after my well-being
2. Stephen stood between his protégés, placed paternal hands on their shoulders and in a voice redolent of sincerity, respectability, sense, determination and authority, addressed the speechless students
3. redolent of her own Thanksgiving
4. The area itself was redolent with the scent of incense, such as one would find in a temple
5. The house was redolent of savory Christmas fare as Gabriel brought his
6. Even his long pauses were redolent with meaning
7. Though the stuff was redolent of beans to a few
8. Her eyes, redolent of a river’s
9. 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
10. On more than one occasion, a dozen at the lowest, near the North Bull at Dollymount he had remarked a superannuated old salt, evidently derelict, seated habitually near the not particularly redolent sea on the wall, staring quite obliviously at it and it at him, dreaming of fresh woods and pastures new as someone somewhere sings
11. From a certain angle, the spring seems so calm: warm, tender, each night redolent and composed
12. “Not since that summer,” she says, and retreats with her vulture face and vulture fingernails into the redolent dark
13. But to the rabbits they were redolent with luxury, a feast to drive all other feelings out of mind
14. A balmy, soft warmth poured into the room, heavy with velvety smells, redolent of many blossoms, of newly fledged trees and of the moist, freshly turned red earth
15. There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities taking place through its corridors and of romances that were not musty and laid away already in lavender but fresh and breathing and redolent of this year’s shining motor cars and of dances whose flowers were scarcely withered
16. For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes
17. The periodicals division was a grotto off the first floor, redolent of burnt coffee and aged paper
18. There was the shirt, for starters, a short-sleeved madras model like the idea of leisurewear held by someone who’d never known leisure, and the creased blue trousers redolent of golf courses
19. It was draped in rich colors, redolent with the smell of potpourri
20. He quickly entered the small reception room with its still-unplastered wooden walls redolent of pine, and would have gone farther, but Anton ran ahead on tiptoe and knocked at a door
21. it was a town redolent of cattle, with wide streets through which to drive the herds down to the stockyards, many hotels, and a few shops
22. The odour which now filled the refectory was scarcely more appetising than that which had regaled our nostrils at breakfast: the dinner was served in two huge tin-plated vessels, whence rose a strong steam redolent of rancid fat
23. Florentino Ariza was looking after his guests in the main salon of the ship, still redolent of fresh paint and tar, when there was a burst of applause on the docks, and the band struck up a triumphal march
24. They were both intimi-dated, they could not understand what they were doing so far from their youth on a terrace with checkerboard tiles in a house that belonged to no one and that was still redolent of cemetery flowers
25. A model farm! where the house stands like a fungus in a muckheap, chambers for men, horses, oxen, and swine, cleansed and uncleansed, all contiguous to one another! Stocked with men! A great grease-spot, redolent of manures and buttermilk! Under a high state of cultivation, being manured with the hearts and brains of men! As if you were to raise your potatoes in the churchyard! Such is a model farm
26. What then shall I liken the Sperm Whale to for fragrance, considering his magnitude? Must it not be to that famous elephant, with jewelled tusks, and redolent with myrrh, which was led out of an Indian town to do honour to Alexander the Great?
27. He quickly entered the small reception room with its still-unplastered wooden walls redolent of pine, and would have gone farther, but Antón ran ahead on tiptoe and knocked at a door
28. It was redolent of sincere conviction, of genuine enthusiasm
29. But what did we do about it in the former case? Did we lock the door? Did we attempt to dyke back the incoming tide? No; but we said, We will meet these people with the Gospel; we will bring their children into our public schools; we will make the very air they breathe redolent with the principles of a genuine Christian liberty, and thus we will make them no longer Irish, or French, or Germans, but, in the second generation, if not the first, Americans all