scent
noun
a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable.
will scent
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future tenseof scent.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Pougeot will scent danger and will move heaven and earth to save us.
From Through the Wall by Cleveland Moffett
He swears that if a priest gets on the windy side of him, he will scent him as a hound would a fox.
From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
We may safely promise any who buy the leaves that they will scent their linen even better than lavender, and more lastingly.
From Fairies Afield by Mrs. (Mary Louisa) Molesworth
I have warned him, but youth is rash; and you will scent danger where he would never dream that it lurked.
From The Champdoce Mystery by Émile Gaboriau
Let a ewe from another fold come in and they will scent her quick as lightning.
From The Story of Wool by Elizabeth Otis
