pungent
Example Sentences
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Aside from being a general nuisance with their ferocious snores, pungent odors and growls, bears can do serious damage to a home.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026
And Joq is genuinely fascinated by the way hickory smoke mellows and rounds out a pungent blue cheese.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
Any viewer thoroughly marinated in the pungent weirdness of “I Think You Should Leave” understands what that means.
From Salon • Oct. 13, 2025
Multiply that by a family's worth of footwear, stack them on a rack, and you have a domestic design problem that's as pungent as it is universal.
From BBC • Sep. 27, 2025
But Kathy let loose a fusillade of pungent suggestions, leaving them dumbfounded and momentarily speechless.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
Vocabulary lists containing pungent
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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