pungence

Example Sentences

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The wisdom of it is equaled, nay surpassed, by the pungence of its wit.

From Time Magazine Archive

It derives its pungence largely from the performance of Laura Hope Crews, who played in the stage version by Sidney Howard in 1926.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have read that its pungence can sometimes restore memory and speech.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

In the moments when the sun shone the heat made the sticky cistus bushes with the glistening white flowers all about me reek with pungence.

From Rosinante to the Road Again by Dos Passos, John

Garlic on Cheese For one sandwich prepare 30 or 40 garlic cloves by removing skins and frying out the fierce pungence in smoking olive oil.

From The Complete Book of Cheese by Brown, Robert Carlton