make bitter

Example Sentences

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Wondering how to make bitter broccoli rabe taste less bitter?

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2022

For most of the year, these lemurs make bitter, leathery smelling chemicals used to keep other males at bay.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 16, 2020

Biotech companies Chromocell and Senomyx also make bitter blockers, and their customers include big brands such as Coca-Cola, Nestlé and Kraft Foods.

From The Guardian • Apr. 11, 2017

Written by Paddy Chayefsky, it contained perhaps the longest and most impassioned speech of his career: “I don’t trust people who make bitter reflections about war, Mrs. Barham,” he said, in part.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2014

But such philosophers should remember that all depends on our loves, whose property it is to make bitter things sweet, and heavy things light.

From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Weems, Mason Locke