FRAGRANT in a Sentence

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There was a large fire burning on the hearth, and one could smell from far the fragrant reek of burning cedar and sandal wood.

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 Meanings and Examples of FRAGRANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fragrant
 a.  having a pleasant or sweet smell; odorous
Classic Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  The smallest, the most fragrant blossoms bedecked the girls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  She could look back, unmoved, at the pretty Scarlett with her fragile green morocco slippers and her flounces fragrant with lavender but she wondered if she could be that same girl.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
3  How pretty and fresh Cathleen had been that day in a swirl of blue organdie with fragrant roses at her sash and little black velvet slippers laced about her small ankles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  In a fit of daring he had whispered to her that she was as pink and fragrant as a rose.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
5  The honeysuckle which draped the gullied red sides of the road in tangled greenery was piercingly fragrant as always after rain, the sweetest perfume in the world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
6  Now, the people of the Pequod had been baling some time in this way; several tubs had been filled with the fragrant sperm; when all at once a queer accident happened.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets.
7  There were wax candles, in massive brass candelabra, burning softly under yellow silk shades; full, fragrant roses, yellow and red, abounded.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXX
8  Imitating the example of the deliberate Gamut, he drew a bundle of fragrant brush from beneath a pile that filled the corner of the hut, and seated himself in silence.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
9  He felt the swash of the fragrant water upon his body.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
10  In the middle of the court, a fountain threw high its silvery water, falling in a never-ceasing spray into a marble basin, fringed with a deep border of fragrant violets.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  Two large orange-trees, now fragrant with blossoms, threw a delicious shade; and, ranged in a circle round upon the turf, were marble vases of arabesque sculpture, containing the choicest flowering plants of the tropics.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
12  The fragrant philter which I need.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWO
13  Beth had old-fashioned fragrant flowers in her garden, sweet peas and mignonette, larkspur, pinks, pansies, and southernwood, with chickweed for the birds and catnip for the pussies.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TEN
14  No one could resist her persuasive nods, or the fragrant invitation issuing from the nose of the coffee pot.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SIXTEEN
15  There was a large fire burning on the hearth, and one could smell from far the fragrant reek of burning cedar and sandal wood.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK V
Example Sentence:
1  How fragrant were the steam of the beverage, and the scent of the toast!
2  He had finished gouging out a cob, and now he fitted a weed stem to it, loaded it with tobacco, and was pressing a coal to the charge and blowing a cloud of fragrant smoke -- he was in the full bloom of luxurious contentment.
3  Champenois wines can be particularly fragrant and perfumed.