piquant

Example Sentences

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Shrimp Pilau, like many of the entrees, is flavored with one of Mr. Twitty’s seasoning mixtures, in this case Kitchen Pepper, a blend of eight piquant spices that goes back to Colonial times.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

The piquant pudding is one of many foods widely eaten in the Caribbean country that has its origins in Africa and has survived to this day.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2025

It all plays like a modern riff on Roald Dahl, with that writer’s wit and penchant for the piquant cruelty of kids and adults alike, filtered through Elliot’s more wistful if equally whimsical sensibility.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2024

“Pisachi” alternates between hushed, singing harmonics and piquant rhythms painted in impassioned tremolos and spiky pizzicatos.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2024

It is little marked upon how much skill must be exercised to produce the most piquant malformations.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson