Example Sentences

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The adults were looking around, and then the woman put the monkey down, and it began to cast this way and that on the grass as if it were scenting or looking for footprints.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

They were scenting something, but were too tired to display the usual animation of the chase.

From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.

But in this particular he labored under a complete delusion—when he least dreamed of danger the slave-catchers were scenting him close.

From The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by Still, William

Antony sat down by a gorse bush, whose golden flowers were scenting the air with a sweet aromatic scent.

From Antony Gray,—Gardener by Moore, Leslie

The Major's fighting blood had stirred within his grandson's veins, and generations of dead Lightfoots were scenting the coming battle from the dust.

From The Battle Ground by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson