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 fox which, overcoming the force of gravity, creeps to the summit where he has scented his prey, is freer in his movements than either.

From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst

"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 scented me as far as this barrack.

From Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen by Verne, Jules

Either the dog's mind, from thirst, is disordered or he has scented water.

From In Desert and Wilderness by Sienkiewicz, Henryk