- present participle of leaven.
leavening
Example Sentences
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The natural leavening gives them a lighter, crispier crust and an airy, mildly tangy crumb.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
They are also what make it rise in the absence of other leavening agents.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2024
Attending nuns push not gurneys but shopping carts, leavening the tragic with the mundane.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2022
So, they have chosen the traditional path, using public filings to make their case — leavening the dense legal passages with explanations aimed at being more accessible to the public, officials said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2022
He recorded the moment in his journal, leavening his relief with the one overriding concern that had lent urgency to the work of all the atomic scientists of those years.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
