Sample Sentences for

redolent

(editor-reviewed)

It is redolent of the language of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

It is something sweet, some scent redolent of school lunchrooms on rainy Thursdays.  (source) Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses, 2013

The air was redolent with the odor of flowers; the nose was constantly amazed by it.  (source) Stephen King, Carrie, 1974

I entered the immaculate little shop, redolent of freshly sawn pine and oak, and found him working at a shrieking band saw.  (source) Homer Hickam, October Sky, 1998

A furry redolence of cinnamon arose from the sack, wafted across Jessica.†  (source) Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

You can almost feel the warm breath of the brown river beyond the river warehouses with their faint redolences of bananas and coffee.†  (source) Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947

Over the back of a silver spoon float a measure of Qualactin Hyper-mint extract, redolent of all the heady odors of the dark Qualactin Zones, subtle, sweet and mystic.  (source) Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1979

Lodged in my every cell, along with the DNA, are molecules of topsoil and atrazine and paraquat and anhydrous ammonia and diesel fuel and plant dust, and also molecules of memory: the bracing summer chill of floating on my back in Mel's pond, staring at the sky; the exotic redolence of the dresses in my mother's closet; the sharp odor of wet tomato vines; the stripes of pain my father's belt laid across my skin; the deep chill of waiting for the school bus in the blue of a winter's dawn.†  (source) Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, 1991

M. Bouc's tone was redolent of heartfelt disgust.  (source) Agatha Christie, Murder On The Orient Express, 1934

I poked around, catching an occasional trace of some childhood redolence.†  (source) Don DeLillo, White Noise, 1985

This home was redolent of new wood and clean matting.  (source) John Hersey, Hiroshima, 1946

I think the soaked concrete of the borough must smell a little of Venice, or what I imagine of Venice, a redolence consumptive, intestinal.†  (source) Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker, 1995

For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes.  (source) F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925