fragrant

Example Sentences

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Let onions, garlic or ginger sizzle until fragrant, then add your spices directly to the oil so they toast and release their full character.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

Start with brown butter — cooled, but still fragrant — and mix it with brown sugar, flour, a generous measure of cinnamon and a pinch of salt.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

Evgeny dissembles: “Nothing. It is perhaps the fragrant scent of a passing track team.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Guthrie smiles as one of her young daughters places the flowers near her nose, an invitation to smell the fragrant blossoms.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

Yasmin Al-Kaisy was putting a glass bowl of some fragrant ice in front of each of them.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman