How to Use redolent in a Sentence
redolent
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It’s restorative and redolent with the aromas of the sea.
— Jeanmarie Brownson, chicagotribune.com, 6 Feb. 2018 -
The boots today are still redolent of 2,000 miles of toil.
— Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian, 27 June 2017 -
The boots today are still redolent of 2,000 miles of toil.
— Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian, 29 July 2017 -
The Winds of Winter are more redolent of hot dogs and stale beer than one might imagine.
— Jeremy Egner, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2017 -
This is all too redolent of Vietnam, but in this case, who will rebuild?
— Gerard Baker, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017 -
So soothing, so redolent of simpler times (which is sort of my ZIP Code).
— Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 3 July 2019 -
Some of its first steps are even oddly redolent of the country’s recent past.
— Keith Darden, Foreign Affairs, 3 Mar. 2014 -
Spanish leather, or peau d’Espagne, was redolent of the Mediterranean woods and orange blossoms in which the skins were soaked.
— Town & Country, 3 Mar. 2023 -
The elegiac score by Lisa Gutkin and Aaron Halva is redolent with the buoyant melancholy of klezmer.
— Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 11 June 2019 -
The meat was a satisfying cross between brisket and roast beef, redolent with star anise and soy.
— Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023 -
The rums are mixed, carbon filtered, and then rested in French oak casks for a smooth rum that's redolent of vanilla and caramel with just a hint of spice.
— Lauren Hubbard, townandcountrymag.com, 11 Apr. 2023 -
Each bite was simple, deep, redolent of the French countryside.
— Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2024 -
Is there any place-name so redolent of adventure, peril and the thrilling cross-currents of culture as the Silk Road?
— Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2023 -
The deviled egg has become a retro-redolent item nowadays.
— Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 22 Mar. 2018 -
The shifts and overlays become redolent metaphors of home and displacement.
— Jason Farago, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018 -
Some burst with juniper flavor, while others are redolent with the aroma of rose petals.
— Bon Appétit, 18 Dec. 2019 -
An employee found the package, redolent of gasoline, and opened it.
— Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2024 -
This is a movie that feels, in the best way, like the last day of summer: radiant, bittersweet, redolent of memories in the making.
— Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 31 May 2024 -
Ginobili, who has played for the Spurs since 2002, is the N.B.A. player whose game is most redolent of silent-movie comedians.
— Thomas Beller, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2017 -
The molten Gruyere — placed in a ceramic bowl on a wire rack over a flaming tea candle — is redolent of white wine, cherry schnapps and garlic on the backbeat.
— James Patrick Kelly, idahostatesman, 27 Apr. 2017 -
Topped with a ridiculously runny, over-easy egg and with a generous amount of tofu mixed in, the earthy, redolent rice had great texture.
— Anna Caplan, star-telegram, 16 Aug. 2017 -
Hicks walked through an older barracks with communal bathrooms at Fort Wainwright that had been scrubbed to a shine and was redolent of Pine-Sol.
— USA TODAY, 8 June 2023 -
The result is a tender, squidgy bar streaked with raspberry and crowned with a crunchy golden streusel redolent with nuts, which also happens to be gluten-free.
— Lynda Balslev, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024 -
Brisket, generously fatty and redolent of oaky smoke, is doused in chimichurri and served on flour tortillas.
— Kayla Stewart, Bon Appétit, 23 Feb. 2024 -
One imagines dancers hopping and gyrating in the low-ceilinged room: humid, hot, packed, redolent of sweat, cigarettes and weed.
— Will Hermes, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023 -
Breezy mornings are ideal for privacy before the heat mounts and the baths heave with people; redolent of a carefree summer camp.
— Alia Akkam, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Mar. 2024 -
Despite the way the fragrance is described, thick with spice and redolent of swirling plumes of smoke, the candle is strangely light, never overpowering.
— Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2024 -
In a place like Oxford, redolent with history, how can so much history be smothered and lost?
— New York Times, 11 May 2018 -
But one bite into them reveals a depth of flavor in a masa redolent with sweet ground corn, which Linquist complements with stewed chicken and a poblano sauce.
— Carlos Frías, miamiherald, 11 May 2017 -
The dark interior, redolent of heady and rich tobacco mixtures, had its own quirks.
— Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 11 Jan. 2024
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