sapid

Example Sentences

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It’s a particularly toothsome, sapid red marked by notes of red fruit and spice, and a wonderful match with a wide range of foods.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

Unlike animals raised in feedlots and pens, Stone Barns' animals oxygenate their muscles with all their ranging and grass-eating, and thereby develop more sapid meat.

From Time Magazine Archive

These papillae are excited to action by the application of any sapid body; in consequence of which they receive a greater supply of blood, become enlarged, and vastly more sensible.

From Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Garnett, Thomas

All sapid bodies are necessarily odorous, and therefore belong as well to the empire of the one as of the other sense.

From The Physiology of Taste by Robinson, Fayette

To us such a proverb is perhaps even more sapid than the sometimes slightly finical turns praised by Erasmus.

From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Huizinga, Johan