pungency

How To Use pungency In A Sentence

• Mace has a flavor and aroma similar to nutmeg, with slightly more pungency.
• he commented with typical pungency
• There was an aromatic pungency about it, which lent it a pleasing exoticism. GALILEE
• Old odors laden with memory rushed to meet her; that pungency which, unaccountably enough, reeks of the cold boiled potato, and which old upholsteries, windowless hallways, and frequent meat stews can generate. Star-Dust
• We'd bring our apples in burlap sacks, whatever we had, Macs, Baldwins, Spies, some Russets if we were lucky, some wild apples for pungency from the woods and hedgerows.
• In 1912, pharmacist William Scoville devised the first systematic test for ranking the pungency of peppers using a panel of tasters.
• Through that view-medium of misfortune -- of a noble spirit in low environments, and of a squalid and premature death -- we view the undoubted facts, (giving, as we read them now, a sad kind of pungency,) that Burns's were, before all else, the lyrics of illicit loves and carousing intoxication. November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
• Isabelle tosses a quarter cup of curry into the wok and our kitchen fills with its muscular yellow pungency.
• The pungency of pepper is due to the active principles it contains - the volatile oil, piperine, and resin.
• Written with a pungency largely absent in Indian public discourse, the cables capture with startling verisimilitude the freewheeling political culture of the world's largest democracy and second-fastest growing major economy. Corruption on Singh's Watch