Explore Odour through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like smell or odor. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Odour meaning
British standard spelling of odor.
Synonyms of Odour
Using Odour
- The main meaning on this page is: British standard spelling of odor.
- Useful related words include: smell, odor, scent, aroma.
- In the example corpus, odour often appears in combinations such as: the odour, odour of, body odour.
Context around Odour
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Odour
- In this selection, "odour" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, body, animal, foul, behind, free and coming stand out and add context to how "odour" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a foul odour behind the and a noxious odour in the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "odour" sits close to words such as adesina, adityanath and adoration, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with odour
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
According to initial investigations, a witness reported smelling a foul odour behind the house. (14 words)
The incident came to light when passengers felt the odour of smoke and alerted the cabin crew. (17 words)
It even has an intelligent warm air-drying system to ensure the mopping system remains clean and odour free. (19 words)
A spokesman said: 'We have received and responded to a number of odour and noise complaints in 2022 and so far in 2023 from Davidstow Creamery waste-water processing facility, operated by Dairy Crest Limited (owned by Saputo Dairy UK). (40 words)
Unlike many of the compounds in body odour, HEX has no discernible smell to humans but it can likely be sensed by all mammals – and its found in abundance on the head of newborn babies. (35 words)
This follows the detection of ethylene oxide, a flammable colourless gas with sweet odour, said to be potentially cancer-causing, in Indomie’s “special chicken” flavour noodles by health officials in Malaysia and Taiwan. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Some observers described it having a strong and distinctive smell, others described a faint, clean, animal odour, and some no odour at all.
According to initial investigations, a witness reported smelling a foul odour behind the house.
Allow this to rest for as long as you can (a couple of hours will suffice) and then re-vacuum the mattress to absorb any odour.
An Environment Agency spokesperson said: “The odour has been caused from unsuitable storage conditions of waste on the site, which is a mixture of municipal waste and construction-demolition waste.
A spokesman said: 'We have received and responded to a number of odour and noise complaints in 2022 and so far in 2023 from Davidstow Creamery waste-water processing facility, operated by Dairy Crest Limited (owned by Saputo Dairy UK).
As two of my towels had gathered this odour, I put a cleaning expert's "best" method to the test exclusively for Express.
Benzaldehyde - a compound commonly found in plants with an almond-like odour -was also 'most strongly associated with the Native soap', they wrote.
Hazmat teams were called to the BC Cancer Clinic in Victoria on Thursday due to reports of a "noxious odour" in the building.
If you smell a musty or mouldy odour, you could have a mould problem—some people say that mould smells like dirty socks or feet.
It even has an intelligent warm air-drying system to ensure the mopping system remains clean and odour free.
It’s important to remember that your vagina’s odour is likely to change throughout your cycle, and it’s rarely something to worry about.
I’ve lived in my apartment for almost 10 years and had the same downstairs neighbour since I moved in. About three years ago, I began noticing an odour coming from her apartment.
Seven staffers forced to clean their desks & uncover source of unpleasant office odour after PM pops by for a visit.
The incident came to light when passengers felt the odour of smoke and alerted the cabin crew.
The plight of locals dealing with the “stinky mess” of the SBI landfill continues, eight months after the plaguing odour began.
There were complaints of odour, noise and light pollution from neighbours – particularly the Brand family right across the road from the operation.
The young lady knew from the masculine odour hanging in the air that the presence was not her sister Pru, who of late wore the Clinique Happy fragrance.
This follows the detection of ethylene oxide, a flammable colourless gas with sweet odour, said to be potentially cancer-causing, in Indomie’s “special chicken” flavour noodles by health officials in Malaysia and Taiwan.
Unlike many of the compounds in body odour, HEX has no discernible smell to humans but it can likely be sensed by all mammals – and its found in abundance on the head of newborn babies.
While Dr Shah has suggested using benzoyl peroxide on your armpits to control body odour, it is not typically recommended for this use.
Common combinations with odour
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the odour 11×
- odour of 11×
- body odour 10×
- odour and 8×
- foul odour 7×
- an odour 6×
- of odour 5×
- and odour 5×
- odour is 5×
- odour in 4×