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Meanings of pungent in anglès
Synonyms
Examples for "biting"
Examples for "biting"
1
But recent government efforts to cool the market appear to be biting.
2
Kachiun held himself still, biting back the questions he wanted to ask.
3
Did you believe some biting was necessary to maintain the LD population?
4
Most of the young men simply couldn't stand the biting and stinging.
5
Allan told Morning Report it was quite literally a nail biting evening.
1
I vote we try to get round outside Mr. Brown's barbed wire.
2
After 16 months of barbed constitutional squabbles, patience is in short supply.
3
There was in the air an imminence of incident, acid and barbed.
4
And the name of this new and dreaded bramble is-thebarbed-wirefence.
5
Above the barriers runs barbed metal to prevent people from climbing over.
1
The spaniel flew at the black dog; nipping at the plodding forepaws.
2
That's the Emperor's strategy-tokeep his foes busy nipping at one another.
3
All day the sun scorched her, but the night was nipping cold.
4
She bent and cracked from stem to stern among the nipping masses.
5
The worries that were nipping at his heels earlier returned with reinforcements.
1
Hard, mordacious, no man's friend... that was the David Drennen who at Père Marquette's fête sought any quarrel to which he might lay his hands.
Usage of pungent in anglès
1
He caught its pungent aroma in the damp air of the court.
2
The pungent reek of incense from a street-shrine was in the smells.
3
This information was repeated down the ranks, along with other pungent observations.
4
The pungent odour of ozone from the electric discharge filled the room.
5
The pungent odor of ozone from the electric discharge filled the room.
6
I took the paper and read, after the pungent headlines, the following:
7
She woke with the smell of frying bacon pungent in her nostrils.
8
The room smelled strong of coffee and the pungent odour of tobacco.
9
The second one was like the first, empty, long and obscurely pungent.
10
A strong, pungent odor that made him gag yet piqued his curiosity.
11
Admixture with vinegar checks the development of the pungent principles of Mustard.
12
On the wind there came to them the pungent odor of smoke.
13
The dread of having offended you gives me the most pungent distress.
14
The result is kimchi, a pungent accompaniment to noodles or chicken broth.
15
I tasted the nut, and found it pungent and astringent, not tempting.
16
It produces momentary insensibility, and is followed by the most pungent pain.
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Pungent through the time
Pungent across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common