pungent

Example Sentences

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“Sometimes, it would be really, really pungent,” she recalled, adding that she’d get headaches and feel like throwing up.

From Los Angeles Times

I chugged cups of instant black coffee like water, not paying much heed to the bitter, pungent aftertaste that lingered on my tongue and scorched my throat.

From Salon

As pungent as our political discourse may often be, calling for a sacking still has an extra severity to it.

From BBC

Any viewer thoroughly marinated in the pungent weirdness of “I Think You Should Leave” understands what that means.

From Salon

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