PERFUME in a Sentence

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For PERFUME, below is one of 87 sentences:
She was in unison with Father Gillenormand; while he erected joy into aphorisms and maxims, she exhaled goodness like a perfume.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERFUME
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
perfume
 n.  pleasing, agreeable scent or odor
Classic Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
1  "I have been a rose," says the perfume.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST
2  On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
3  When one passed near her, her whole toilette exhaled a youthful and penetrating perfume.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST
4  Leblanc and his daughter had just quitted, a handkerchief, a very simple handkerchief, without embroidery, but white, and fine, and which seemed to him to exhale ineffable perfume.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO ...
5  Algebra is applied to the clouds; the radiation of the star profits the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the hawthorn is useless to the constellations.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS
6  They send each other the song of the birds, the perfume of the flowers, the smiles of children, the light of the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE
7  For him, Cosette was a perfume and not a woman.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
8  She was in unison with Father Gillenormand; while he erected joy into aphorisms and maxims, she exhaled goodness like a perfume.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
9  The soil was humid and glittering with the rain which had recently fallen, and the refreshed herbs sent forth their perfume with additional energy.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 66 EXECUTION
10  She was clutching something in her hand, and the reek of heavy cheap perfume came into the room with her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  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
12  She could not figure herself as anywhere but in a drawing-room, diffusing elegance as a flower sheds perfume.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
13  The film was a highly advertised and abysmal thing smacking of simpering hair-dressers, cheap perfume, red-plush suites on the back streets of tenderloins, and complacent fat women chewing gum.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  I say, that the motion of a Sperm Whale's flukes above water dispenses a perfume, as when a musk-scented lady rustles her dress in a warm parlor.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 92. Ambergris.
15  Lena had given him one of Tiny Soderball's bottles of perfume for his mother, and he thought he would get some handkerchiefs to go with it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: V
Example Sentence:
1  Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
2  This perfume has a light, fresh fragrance.
3  The scent of her perfume lingered on in the room.
4  Amy thought she caught the faintest drift of Isabel's flowery perfume.
5  As British companies withdraw Jade's top-selling perfume from the shelves, it's losing work for people in Mumbai where its bottles are manufactured.
6  She left a trace of musky perfume behind her.
7  We stock a wide range of perfumes.
8  Avoid using perfumed soaps on sensitive skin.
9  Champenois wines can be particularly fragrant and perfumed.