pheromonein a sentence
- There were terpenes, which plants spread to poison the soil around them and inhibit competitors; alkaloids, which made them unpalatable to insects and predators (and children); and pheromones, used for communication.† (source)
- Through some miracle-pheromones of stress, probably-Sam fell asleep, but startled, bawling, when the doorbell rang.† (source)
- Then she'd spray herself with a citrus-derived chemical compound to disguise her human pheromones unless she did that there could be trouble, as the men would smell her and think it was time to mate.† (source)
- I wanted the complete experience before I traded in my warm, breakable, pheromone-riddled body for something beautiful, strong...and unknown.† (source)
- Cigarette smoke, toxic curls in the stairwell at my feet, soft voices rising, pheromone fog.† (source)
- One of those weird pheromone things that are supposed to attract women like a big genetically engineered bug zapper?† (source)
- He thought, "My pheromones are announcing fear."† (source)
- But I didn't really know why until I read in the newspaper recently that when you squash a yellow jacket they release some kind of chemical, pheromone or something, that signals a defense alarm that alerts other yellow jackets and they swarm in and sting anyone that's around.† (source)
- The perfume claims to have alluring pheromones.
- The stuff could have analogue mammalian sex pheromones in it, which would be just his luck.† (source)
- I'm in a pheromone fog as I make coffee, stock rows of cigarettes, mop up a customer's mistake.† (source)
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- Since it's only the blue tissue and the pheromones released by it that stimulate the males, there's no more unrequited love these days, no more thwarted lust; no more shadow between the desire and the act.† (source)
- "How much misery" Crake said one lunchtime — this must have been when they were in their early twenties and Crake was already at the Watson-Crick Institute — "how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones?† (source)
- Only serious pursuit of my dad (don't ask me why-who can say what evil pheromones must have been at work!)† (source)
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