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How to use odour in a sentence

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She found the poison sting still in his body and from the odour, she knew that he had come to the child in the form of a scorpion.
She selected a very fat cigarette which she lit with a petrol lighter, and grinned as it issued a rich sweet-smelling odour.
It is brownish-yellow outside, whitish and lactescent within, having an acrid taste and disagreeable odour.
There's a strong whiff of testosterone amidst the anti-bacterial spray and truffle odour.
The absence of skin, odour and blood means that many visitors are surprised that they do not feel instinctive revulsion.
Patients often find that they must restrict or change their diet to avoid excess wind, odour or loose stool.
The number of days when she could smell an odour would depend on atmospheric conditions and wind direction.
This impression was often based on an aversion to the strong odour of the camels rather than the cameleers themselves.
Types of air pollution include particulate and gaseous emissions and odour pollution.
In other words the electronic odour sensor can detect the presence of bacteria in a sample of urine or other body fluids.
Shoe odour can be eliminated by sprinkling bicarbonate of soda or dry, powdered herbs, such as chamomile, in the shoes each evening.
Saffron has a spicy, pungent, bitter taste and a tenacious odour, so only a very small amount is needed to give flavour and colour.
The vile odour is different from the sickly-sweet sugar beet smell that periodically wafts across the city from the plant.
The flowers do not bloom until nightfall, when they emit a mouse-like odour, and bats visit them for nectar and pollen.
He wore a dark scarf covering his face and is described as smelling strongly of body odour.
The cells are cramped and inmates live in vast halls that smell of stale body odour and unchanged beds.
If someone smells badly from halitosis or body odour, or if someone is eating a McDonalds on a packed train, do we ask that they get banned also?
The offender is described by police as grubby and tatty looking, with a very strong smell of body odour.
First of all, when you said humans were never attracted to the smell of body odour, you couldn't have been more wrong.
She also knew that she smelt strongly of body odour, she couldn't remember the last time she had washed properly.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The odour of the benzol passes off very quickly, that of the turpentine after exposure for a few days.
Myrrh and mastic are employed on account of their odour, and their presumed preservative action and power of fixing loose teeth.
It resembles ordinary camphor in most properties, but its odour is not of so diffusible a nature.
This oil closely resembles cocoa-nut and palm-nut oils and is stated to saponify readily and yield a soap free from odour.
Hydrochloric acid added to a clear solution, after some time, causes a turbidity and odour of sulphurous anhydride.
The Spaniards, already in evil odour with the seagoing population, were accused of abominable treachery.
It has a very powerful odour, resembling that of some of the umbelliferous plants, and is unaffected by caustic potassa.
Above their heads the wind thrummed and whistled in the rigging, and the clean, unbreathed odour of the sea was salt and bracing.
I asked, and the next minute I recognized the odour of the mimosa blossoms.
A thin colourless liquid, of pungent rancid odour, and sour taste, miscible with water and alcohol.
The bottles should be all sound, clean, and dry, and perfectly free from the least mustiness or other odour.
This double cloth is afterwards suspended in a stove-room to dry, and to discharge the disagreeable odour of the naphtha.
An excess of naphthalene should also be avoided, since, on account of its strong odour, soaps containing much of it are unpopular.
It had also given some to the native bear, and Wallaby, and in consequence the whole air was laden with the odour of eucalyptus.
The patient suffers from a peculiar kind of dyspnoea, and the breath and skin have a sweet ethereal odour.
The very odour of those plums in Johnny's nostrils was the equivalent of ecstasy.
It appeared to be surrounded by a cloud of vapour which gave off a sickly odour.
Kanter died subsequently in North Holland, in the odour of ultra-orthodoxy.
Genuine amber, when rubbed together, emits a very fragrant odour similar to a fresh lemon, and does not abrade the surface.
He lifted his head and sniffed the flaccid air, which was laden with a heavy odour.
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