How To Use Pungent In A Sentence

I looked up and saw that the trees I was standing under were eucalypts, which had released their oily, pungent aroma into the wet air.
It appeared to be opaque glass, but it exuded the pungent fetor of magick. Sparks
It will go much darker and become less pungent in both taste and aroma. The Sun
His pungent rejoinders made short work of the Government's high-flown theories.
Dried manure ground into fine powder by hooves and wagon wheels puffed up into the air and its pungent smell filled the town and drifted far outside the town.

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It is notoriously pungent, extremely powerful and a favourite at Chinese banquets. Times, Sunday Times
It sounds an odd pairing but used sparingly, the earthy, pungent and aromatic flavour of sage adds rich warmth to simply cooked white fish. Times, Sunday Times
It has quite a kick, emphasised by a pungent aroma that brings tears to the eyes and a hanky to the nose.
Stepping out of the wooden portals, your nostrils are assailed by the pungent smell of leaf-wrapped dosai.
She could smell the pungent blossoms of the town's caragana hedges, for sure. The Doctor's Daughter
He now wears a diamond stud in the middle of his dickey and uses a pungent variety of macassar oil on his hair.
And it seems the obligatory pungent cigarette, clamped firmly in the corner of the mouth, is a necessary aid to concentration.
This is the pungent and original argument.
Pepper Flavor The main pungent compound in pepper is piperine, which is found in the thin fruit layer and the surface layers of the seed. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Also occupying the plate were little pearl onions, which were great, though they had a pungent, gamey flavour to them.
Alsace has had a strong, pungent history. Times, Sunday Times
Thus a South Slavonian housebreaker sometimes begins operations by throwing a dead mans bone over the house, saying, with pungent sarcasm, As this bone may waken, so may these people waken; after that not a soul in the house can keep his or her eyes open. Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic. § 2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic
Hydrogen bromide is a colorless, corrosive, nonflammable gas with a sharp, unpleasant, pungent odor. Those computer models…
It has a warm energy with bitter and acrid or pungent flavors.
About the twenty-first, weight generally in the left side, with pain; slight urine thick, muddy, and reddish; when allowed to stand, had no sediment; in other respects felt lighter; fever not gone; fauces painful from the commencement, and red; uvula retracted; defluxion remained acrid, pungent, and saltish throughout. Of The Epidemics
He feels like himself, but is trapped in a dog's body, describing in graphic detail the many pungent, metallic, meaty and sickly smells all around him.
A vegetable plant ( Brassica rapa ) related to the turnip and grown for its pungent leafy shoots.
As we walked down the lane its pungent smell made our stomachs rumble. Times, Sunday Times
The chèvre, mushroom and zucchini sandwich on thickly sliced bread didn't skimp on the goat cheese, but it was a bit too pungent to pair with the root soup.
Although the grains of rice were just this side of undercooked, the sauce was packed with a rich, pungent flavour.
Belly of pork is the kitchen's star turn, a tender piece of pig scented with the pungent breath of garlic flowers - tube of crackling included.
Treatment involves the application of insecticide by pressure spray in the form of pungent solvents or water-based emulsions or pastes.
Saturated hydrocarbons can burn to aldehydes, alcohols to organic acids, and aromatics to unsaturated compounds which are pungent and irritating.
Much of its punch derives from new-minted, surprising chord progressions and pungent dissonance, an idiom Barber carries to the end of the setting.
She lit up and Geoffrey could smell the pungent aroma of what he guessed must be Marijuana.
But it was the pungent, aromatic smell coming from the property that made the neighbours in the quiet suburban terrace increasingly suspicious. The Sun
I can still remember the pungent smell. FRIENDS FOR LIFE
Down his throat the centurion poured what tasted like a pungent mixture of old wine mixed with some sort of foul-tasting drug. The Shroud Codex
Fresh turmeric is more powerful and pungent than the dried stuff. Times, Sunday Times
The slices of deep red sausage had the pungent flavour of barbecued pork, quite similar to a sweet beef jerky.
It's best to eat less of the astringent, bitter, and pungent tastes in winter, although all six tastes should be included in your diet.
I am told that a less pungent way to deter cats is to spray a solution of eucalyptus oil around the area to be protected. Times, Sunday Times
The air smells smoky, charred, and in some areas a pungent smell persists that nobody can identify. Times, Sunday Times
Much of its punch derives from new-minted, surprising chord progressions and pungent dissonance, an idiom Barber carries to the end of the setting.
Hers was by far the better of the two, the parfait a rich, pungent slab of flavour that left her purring.
Labour's Ovine & Bovine really should pay attentionto this in The Times - though I daresay they are somewhat distracted by the pungent whiff of the abattoir which must be assailing their collective nostrilsat the moment. A Painful Lesson From A Brussels Vet
Flavours are assertive without being pungent and the food is satisfyingly filling without the heaviness of some of the other regional cuisines.
His criticism could be pungent, he rarely praised, but instilled respect for the language he loved.
'Stonor's too content just to criticize, just to make his delicate pungent fun of the men who are grappling -- very inadequately of course -- still _grappling_ with the big questions. The Convert
Uses - a deliciously pungent culinary herb; also of some medicinal value. Planning the Organic Herb Garden
the soup was pungently flavored
From this pungently unpromising substance we have made a variety of savoury stews and fritters, and saltfish is one of the Caribbean's unexpectedly characteristic flavours.
We went to the front door and as it was opened there was a strong, pungent smell. Times, Sunday Times
Her main objection was our liberal use of garlic, that pungent bulb with its pretty, papery sheath, encasing ivory-coloured segments, shaped like half-moons.
It has a light aroma and a persistent, pungent taste. SPICE: The History of a Temptation
Fresh turmeric is more powerful and pungent than the dried stuff. Times, Sunday Times
As the name suggests, the area is rich in sulphur and that means it smells pretty pungent - think rotten eggs. The Sun
Eclectic learning, pungent black humour sometimes degenerating into facetiousness, a stately but singular style, distinguish all his writing.
There is a whiff of conspiracy in the air and it reeks pungently of Chardonnay glugging down the plug hole and just a dash of carpet-trampled kettle chips.
The horses munched their grain, stamped and whiffled, and filled the derelict tavern with the pungent scent of their droppings. Conqueror's Moon
Uses - a deliciously pungent culinary herb; also of some medicinal value. Planning the Organic Herb Garden
he wrote pungently about his contemporaries
The taste is bitter and disagreeably pungent.
Pungent foods such as brussels sprouts, broccoli, onions, spices, coffee and chocolate, Profet says, nauseate some pregnant women because they contain compounds, such as allyl isothiocyanate in cabbage, that can interfere with fetal-organ formation. Babies, Broccoli And Birth Defects
However, in our laboratory a strong pungent smell had been noticed in the morning, after overnight sterilization.
He always knew there was a good time going on because there would be laughter and a pungent smell. The Sun
A tiny fire of dead greasewood branches warms my hands and perfumes the air with pungent woodsmoke.
A pungent mix of sage and frankincense fumes away in a censer on the front counter, while in the back, a row of nervous customers await their consultation with Obaike, the in-house santero, or spirit doctor.
They range from the unapologetically avant-garde ( "Foot Under Foot," which opens the session), to the pungent and fractured ( "Skitter In") to the affirmingly lugubrious ( "The Sun at Midnight"). What's Elliptical Is New Again
I mean, yes, I did book a nonsmoking room, as opposed to this one which smells more pungent than Philip Morris' tongue. Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Eight: I'd Rather Be Abused at the Riviera Than Set Foot in Donald Trump's Hotel
the pungent taste of radishes
The celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay was the target of a pungent protest against eating horse meat yesterday.
_Leaf-blades_ are broadly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute, spreading, flat, or in short-leaved forms, stiff and pungent, 1 to 2 inches long (rarely also 5 inches long), glabrous above and below, ciliate at the margins towards the base, and with a very minutely serrate hyaline margin. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Susan always thought of second - floor alcoved bedrooms as filled with the pungent fumes of Miss Saturday's Child
She has some pungent comments about the spineless response to terrorism.
His harmonies waft a pungent perfume all their own, and invite you into an imaginative, mercurial world unique in music history. Times, Sunday Times
So now we have an alternative to my bottles of pungent vinaigrette and I confess that this dressing actually is better paired with the soft, delicate lettuces our beloved Tantre green frillies that are available now. Reading, Writing, Cooking and Crafting: What to put on all those salads...
His throat and lungs filled with the pungent stifling smoke of powder, his nostrils with earth and dust, he frantically wheezed and sneezed, leaping about, falling drunkenly, leaping into the air again, staggering on his hind-legs, dabbing with his forepaws at his nose head-downward between his forelegs, and even rubbing his nose into the ground. CHAPTER XIX
Some oreganos are mild, almost scentless, and not great for cooking, while others are pungent and flavorful.
Smoke wafts in pungent plumes but fans of his cuisine dig in with gusto, claiming that the food ‘makes men men’.
On the farm, smells tended to be pungent; dung being removed from the cow byre, stable, pig sty or poultry house, rated high in that league.
When sliced, and applied externally, the raw Onion serves by its pungent and essential oil to quicken the circulation, and to redden the skin of the particular surface treated in this way; very usefully so in the case of an unbroken chilblain, or to counteract neuralgic pain; but in its crude state the bulb is not emollient or demulcent. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
These moderately colored and highly pungent oleoresins are available with color standardized at 2000 to 5000 Standard International Units.
Saffron has a spicy, pungent, bitter taste and a tenacious odour, so only a very small amount is needed to give flavour and colour.
These produce a less pungent smell than do the diverse organisms which infect many surface-ripened cheeses.
The jasmine tea was replaced with a rare pomelo blossom perfumed tea*, which seems to have captured the essence of Charisma more fully – including it’s rounded floralcy and pungent aroma from the kewda and spearmint. Archive 2009-03-01
Enjoying stardom while shrewdly aware of its unreality, she was accessible, loyal, generous, with a pungent sense of humour.
As such, many regions developed their own local mustard style—from pungent Burgundian spreads most famously that of Dijon to the sweet grainy stuff made famous in Bavaria. The Commitment-Phobe's Condiment
pungent satire
It had a pungent smell and gave you cancer. Times, Sunday Times
However, some of those compounds such as capsaicin (the substance that makes chilies pungent) and some cyanogenic glycosides, have no apparent deleterious or deterrent effect on birds.
French bassoons had a reedy, pungent tone, quite unlike the rounded timbre of German bassoons.
It is the black Mustard which yields by its seeds the condiment of our tables, and the pungent yellow flour which we employ for the familiar stimulating poultice, or sinapism. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
Singed needles only add to the celebration because they crackle like sparklers and give off the pungent aroma of the evergreen woods.
Chinese ginger tends to be mainly pungent; South Indian and Australian gingers have a notable quantity of citral and so a more distinctly lemony aroma; Jamaican ginger is delicate and sweet, African ginger penetrating. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
They have long been tainted with the image of something salty and pungent atop a pizza; over the past ten years or so, that has changed. Times, Sunday Times
I can still remember the pungent smell. FRIENDS FOR LIFE
The air is pungent with the smell of the rain-soaked marigolds and yellow poppies.
Slightly piney, with a tiny taste of mint and ginger thrown in, it's an unforgettable flavor that can seem pungent or sweet, depending on how it's used.
The sticks are too new and they give out a pungent, gluey, cloying smell. SEA MUSIC
The entryway was a garbage dump for rotted food, and the stairways reeked of old and pungent uric acid.
The marinated Vietnamese salami is seasoned with dried onion and tastes similar to ham but includes several kinds of spices, making it a little pungent.
At the back of the library, hung with pungent wisteria in summer, it gets slushier and soggier, but still passable; the next bend brings you to New College back gate and a totally clear patch -- either scrupulously gritted or protected from the snow not terribly likely that latter. Fickle, inconstant, and patterned snow
Presumably there were no sites left among the pungent stockyards of the Byres Road.
In Medieval Europe, wolves acquired a pungent reputation for trickery and ferocity.
The pipe-bowls and stems always remain of the size appropriated by etiquette to the use of the harem; but the strongest and most pungent sorts of tobacco are not unseldom smoked, until the mouth, which, according to the assurance of the poet, in the bloom of its youth breathed forth ambergiris and musk, in its fortieth year acquires so strong a smell that the lady can be scented from a distance. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
Stalactites sprouted from the roof, the exhaust pipe breathed out a pungent cloud of foundry fumes ... Strange Fiction in the Marketplace
The skunk releases a pungent smell as a means of protection.
A handful of spinach or basil could replace the subtly pungent ramsons. Times, Sunday Times
There is a whiff of conspiracy in the air and it reeks pungently of Chardonnay glugging down the plug hole and just a dash of carpet-trampled kettle chips.
American officials said it was safe, despite its pungent odour and edible rind of mouldy nettle leaves. Times, Sunday Times
Mr Bloom ate his strips of sandwich, fresh clean bread, with relish of disgust pungent mustard, the feety savour of green cheese. Ulysses
In all copious amounts of alcohol are consumed and the pungent smell of marijuana wafts through the air.
These timid little creatures exude a pungent smell when threatened.
It has a light aroma and a persistent, pungent taste. SPICE: The History of a Temptation
Warning: Eaten in sufficient amounts, this product ensures bad breath, probable indigestion and pungent, loose stools.
Saturated hydrocarbons can burn to aldehydes, alcohols to organic acids, and aromatics to unsaturated compounds which are pungent and irritating.
The pinkroot also holds a bitter and pungent substance that is soluble in water as well as alcohol, but not soluble in ether (an organic amalgam related to the hydrocarbon group). Find Me A Cure
It will go much darker and become less pungent in both taste and aroma. The Sun
The great family of ground beetles (Carabidæ) almost all possess a disagreeable and some a very pungent smell, and a few, called bombardier beetles, have the peculiar faculty of emitting a jet of very volatile liquid, which appears like a puff of smoke, and is accompanied by a distinct crepitating explosion. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
There is no privilege here, no escape from the insolent booth attendants, the ceaseless demands of the homeless, and the pungent overcrowding.
The air possessed a pungent, acrid smell because the cigarette had burned through a filter stub in the overflowing ashtray.
Some of it was pungently stimulating; some, for this farang, verged on the inedible — like eating incendiary, pongy swamp. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile one boxer's mother – pungently scripted – pretends to be defrosting the fridge so that she can hide her own melting into tears. Hamlet; Passion; Beautiful Burnout; Wanderlust
Hepungently assesses the disgusting abdication of moral responsibility being displayed by Europe over the race to acquire nuclear weapons.
Pungent, peppery and citrusy, they can be devillishly hot. Times, Sunday Times
Youth is like a war,a pungent warm.
Take a group of mortgage loans, most of them squishy with impending failure and pungent with ripening fraud; "securitize" them into a bond; then place that bond between two mirrors that face each other in such a way that the mutual reflections appear to trail off into infinity. LewRockwell.com
The heady air was filled with exotic fragrances of spices laced with the pungent aroma of seething humanity. Times, Sunday Times
Raw ginger has a refreshing smell and a pungent taste that most people like.
Alsace has had a strong, pungent history. Times, Sunday Times
But it was the pungent, aromatic smell coming from the property that made the neighbours in the quiet suburban terrace increasingly suspicious. The Sun
The gin is assertive, woody, a pungent mouthful, with the bite of alcohol and aromatics.
This can cause an'off' flavour and a pungent smell. The Sun
Uses - its pungent bitter smell is reputed to repel insects. Planning the Organic Herb Garden
A wind springs up, a strong gust that carries the pungent scent of pine needles. Smithsonian Mag
I also must know the wind direction because this time of year, the barnyard has an extra pungent, wettish aroma that wafts over to the house with an easterly breeze. Archive 2009-03-01
(And as for that popular yet pungent crispy curry condiment called Bombay duck… well it seems that the dried bummalo fish was caught long ago by European Union import restrictions).
Wandering among the ruins, there was the distinctive, pungent smell of death, as many bodies have yet to be discovered.
There's an airy, audible crispness to the shell, and a fine, pungent kick to the filling.
Alison could see the yellowish stained teeth and the pungent smell of cigars and liquor was in his breath from a bar most likely.
He said the smell was caused by polecats, which have a natural pungent odour, and the dead bird had stunned itself the previous day when it escaped and flew into a window.
It has a pungent smell of garlic, and grows in colonies away from the bluebells. Times, Sunday Times
It sounds an odd pairing but used sparingly, the earthy, pungent and aromatic flavour of sage adds rich warmth to simply cooked white fish. Times, Sunday Times
He always knew there was a good time going on because there would be laughter and a pungent smell. The Sun
They included skatole, a component of feces; trimethylamine, one of the essences of rotting fish; and several of the more pungent fatty acids that contribute to rancid human body odor, " Ed says.
Nothing but the stench of fear to show for his presence, a pungent lingering smell that slides down the back of your throat like tar.
In the eyes of many Chinese, kitchens, especially public ones, can be associated with bloody slaughtering, pungent smells and ill-bred shouting.
On this first morning he put aside his newspapers -- one an old established Tory journal, with all the local and county news, which was the most interesting to him; the other the _Morning Chronicle_, which he called his dose of bitters, and which called out many a strong expression and tolerably pungent oath. Wives and Daughters
A wind springs up, a strong gust that carries the pungent scent of pine needles. Smithsonian Mag
They add a sharp, pungent flavour to dishes with a piquant base.
It is notoriously pungent, extremely powerful and a favourite at Chinese banquets. Times, Sunday Times
Diced spring onion was floating on the surface of the dark red soup, which was a little pungent.
For the ruffianish pages of Jack London, the pungent, hospitable smell of a first-class bar-room -- that indescribable mingling of Maryland rye, cigar smoke, stale malt liquor, radishes, potato salad and _blutwurst_. Damn! A Book of Calumny
Uses - a deliciously pungent culinary herb; also of some medicinal value. Planning the Organic Herb Garden
It has a pungent smell of garlic, and grows in colonies away from the bluebells. Times, Sunday Times
Given the many possibilities for confusion, I agree with Alan Davidson and others that we should refer to pungent capsicums with the original and unambiguous Nahuatl name chilli. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
If Gorgonzola is your thing, it's also in the quattro formaggio along with pungent swiss, fontina and mozzarella.
These united qualities correct acids in the stomach, cleanse the lungs, and open obstructions in the glands caused by coagulated serum; and the saline pungent oil altering the acids in the glands of the brain, by correcting and attenuating its lympha and succus nervosus, produces the same effect; for the lympha and nervous juice are, like other glandulous humours, liable to acidity and stagnation; therefore these aromatics, by exciting their motion and correcting their acidities, render the liquids of the nerves more volatile, and are therefore justly termed cephalics. A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves
I have a strong liking for duck $16, so that was a given, here delivered in a bowl ripe with aromatic 5-spice powder, accompanied by charred frisee, chicory, tamarin syrup, and grains of paradise, a pungent spice. Jay Weston: Good Evening Vietnam: Red Medicine Is Here
He wrote pungently against Gnosticism and other heresies, and in the course of his polemic unfolded a story of salvation of breathtaking coherence and scope.
At normal room temperatures and pressures ammonia exists as a colorless gas that is lighter than air and has a characteristic pungent odor.
No, I could not smell the pungent pong of a mature Stilton cheese.
The pungent smell of burnt wood and a powerful odor of sweat saturated the very walls of the shop.
If you like your eggs dark green and with a pungent smell, head to China for a century egg. Times, Sunday Times
He enjoyed the play's shrewd and pungent social analysis.
People use tangy and pungent dressings and you often see it topped with shavings of Parmesan. Times, Sunday Times
The sulphur odor is more pungent at night in this natural phenomenon know as the world's only drive-in volcano. Dwight Brown: St. Lucia -- The Shangri-la Caribbean Island
Fresh turmeric is more powerful and pungent than the dried stuff. Times, Sunday Times
As the name suggests, the area is rich in sulphur and that means it smells pretty pungent - think rotten eggs. The Sun
Youth is like a war,a pungent warm.
A few moments of faulty tuning and uneven articulation aside (not to be confused with the pungent harmonies and piquant effects written into this music), the ensemble's two instrumentalists -- medieval-harpist Constance Whiteside (the group's artistic director) and violinist Craig Resta, who played here on the arrestingly throaty precursor to the violin, the medieval vielle -- both did sterling and vividly atmospheric work. Armonia Nova's arresting concert of early music at St. Mark's, Capitol Hill
If we just could get rid of the quite pungent smell of a sheep stable even after a good scrub it would be perfect.
The _leaf-blade_ is convolute when young, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, variable from 1/4 to 2 inches long and 1/10 to 1/6 inch wide, acuminate, flat or somewhat wavy, glabrous on both the surfaces, rigidly pungent, densely crowded and distichously imbricate in the lower part of the stem, base is amplexicaul, and the margin is distantly serrate and rigidly ciliate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
As he stole past the joiner's on that sunny morning, when wood was resinous and pungent of odour, he was suddenly conscious of a varnishy smell, and felt a misgiving without knowing why. The House with the Green Shutters
It's in what was once the spice area, known for its pungent and exotic smells.
The frescoes show his racy handling of narrative and his pungent characterization.
It had a pungent smell and gave you cancer. Times, Sunday Times
Above them is a large incense container that has been slowly swinging on a chain and exudes a pungent smell that lingers for the duration.
Youth is like a war,a pungent warm.
The stench from the carcass filled the Chamber; a pungent mixture of sewage and vanilla.
The three of us, mum, sister and I, were thoroughly ill - the constant churning motion of the ship combined with the smell of oil and metal and ozone and kippers in the dark combined to make a pungent emetic.
The lamb was roasted with minced spices and peppers, tender and pungent.
You can dive in and do lengths as you inhale the sweet, pungent smell of cedar and enjoy the view of snow-covered mountain ranges. Times, Sunday Times
Louisiana health officials have ordered air quality testing after a "pungent fuel smell" blanketed "much of coastal Louisiana" and New Orleans. Think Progress
It will go much darker and become less pungent in both taste and aroma. The Sun
Nearby was a factory which exuded a pungent smell.
I think Oka is a bit too pungent for a cheese plate, as it can overpower the other selections.
There's a pungent smell of marijuana in the air. Times, Sunday Times
The aldehydes are also pungent gases and cause eye, nose and throat irritation.
The air was pungent with the smell of spices.
I love the pungent smell of their leaves as they are cut from August to November. The Sun
It smells pungent and is very salty. Times, Sunday Times
Peppers can be classified into two groups: mild or sweet, such as bell, pimento and sweet wax, and hot or pungent, such as jalapeño, serrano and Hungarian wax.
Traditional Caprese salad has sweet, fresh bocconcini cheese, perfectly ripe tomatoes and pungent fresh basil.
The air smells smoky, charred, and in some areas a pungent smell persists that nobody can identify. Times, Sunday Times
The pungent aroma of incense filled the corridor as the door opened wider.
The pungent, choking smell of sulphur filled the air.
Despite occasional rough patches where he resorts to four-letter vulgarities, he comes up with countless utterances so pungent you want to recite them to everyone within earshot.
In the street markets the aroma of mangos and star-shaped carambola fruit jostles with the pungent smell of fresh seafood. Rio de Janeiro
The flavour of garlic is well known for its hot, dry pungent taste, savoured in the cuisine of many cultures.
Gone were the blossoms of blackthorns, brambles, sweet roses, violets, and pungent garlics.
In the sixteenth century, for example, pungent animal scents such as musk and civet were very popular.
The rider delivered some loud, bitter and pungent comments, and people shook their heads at the girl.
The pungent, choking smell of sulphur filled the air.

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