How to Use redolent in a Sentence

redolent

adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Grilled pork, a mainstay of banh mi and bun, might be the most familiar of the meats that go with the com tam, and it’s excellent – a bit sweet and savory, redolent of black pepper and grilled to smoky, tender perfection.
    Kate Washington, sacbee, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The finished pickles are slightly salty, redolent with herbaceous Mexican oregano and laced with chipotle smoke, followed by the sharper heat of fresh jalapeño.
    SFChronicle.com, 26 July 2019
  • The tortillas, spread with the rich, comforting pork and tomato stew, redolent with guajillo chili, and studded with bacon and chorizo, are finished with cheese and sour cream.
    Mara Severin | Eating Out, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Of course, genocide is a charged and redolent term, recalling the systematic precision of the Holocaust and the society-wide butchery of the Rwandan genocide.
    Kristina Hook, Foreign Affairs, 28 July 2022

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