Sample Sentences for
olfactory
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    SNOOPER, POISON: radiation analyzer within the olfactory spectrum and keyed to detect poisonous substances.  (source)
    olfactory = related to the sense of smell
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    With that olfactory observation, that specific little detail, the Terror unspooled.  (source)
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    A cloud of scent rises from her, lily of the valley, enveloping him in olfactory gauze.  (source)
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    At night when things got dull, which was every night, the men slid down the brass poles, and set the ticking combinations of the olfactory system of the Hound and let loose rats in the firehouse area-way, and sometimes chickens, and sometimes cats that would have to be drowned anyway, and there would be betting to see which the Hound would seize first.  (source)
    olfactory = smelling
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    Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money.  (source)
    olfactory = smelly
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    He added sotto voce, "And it improves my olfactory experience, you know?"  (source)
    olfactory = smelling
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    His curly brown hair clung matted to his forehead, and my olfactory senses said without question it was closing in on the time of month when the Thorntons should consider emptying the moonshine out of the bathtub.  (source)
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    He had always heard that the nose was the best link to the past, that the olfactory sense was the strongest for tapping into forgotten history, and now some long-stored remembrances of his own childhood flitted through his mind.  (source)
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    Monsieur Defarge's olfactory sense was by no means delicate, but the stock of wine smelt much stronger than it ever tasted, and so did the stock of rum and brandy and aniseed.  (source)
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    It came to my olfactory sense, full and fresh, overwhelming: the smell of vegetation.  (source)
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    We have radioactive isotope scanners, olfactory filters designed by the American DEA to detect the faintest chemical signatures of combustibles and toxins.  (source)
    olfactory = related to the sense of smell
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    What made it possible for certain olfactory nerves to be stimulated by various odors?  (source)
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    Thus by association with the initial letters they mastered the twelve cranial nerves: olfactory, optic, oculomotor, trochlear, and the rest.  (source)
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