scent
noun
a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable.
has scented
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present perfectof scent (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Now this video gold rush is starting to move the media world, which has scented an opportunity to make money and engage their audiences in new ways.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2016
The smoke of the domestic hearth has scented them through and through.
From House of the Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
I think that M. has scented those assays.
From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.
"Help" has scented it, and springing with his huge paws towards the sofa, tears and rends it furiously in his heavy jaws with the savage air of a lion destroying prey.
From When the Birds Begin to Sing by Piffard, Harold
He has been swimming about somewhere up-stream, and has scented us, and dived.
From Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods by Hornibrook, Isabel
