leavening

Example Sentences

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The film’s comedy won’t appeal to all tastes, but some will welcome the leavening effect it has on the movie’s more frightening aspects.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

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

The leavening gives the brownies a little lift, which helps them hold their swirl while baking.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 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