pungence

Example Sentences

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Mustard seeds comes in a variety of colors, sizes and pungencies.

From Washington Times • Jun. 2, 2023

The Vietnamese food found here makes for an expeditious trip to that country’s tastes and textures, the cuisine’s pungencies and subtleties, the glorious heaps of fresh herbs.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 18, 2017

But any lugubriousness was dispelled by unexpected rhythmic pungencies, and balanced by the wondrous serenity of William Byrd and Thomas Tomkins.

From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2012

He tried in Moscow, Marseille, Paris, Naples as well as Berlin, cities whose textures and pungencies he focused with astonishing force in his writings.

From Time Magazine Archive

A woman is the better for a spice of the devil!'—an aphorism, which we have owed at first to some gentleman who, like my father, had slender experience in the pungencies of female character.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary