resinous

Example Sentences

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Oregano, especially in its dried form — which sharpens and intensifies into something almost resinous, unlike its greener, more delicate fresh counterpart — has become the backbone of my pantry cooking.

From Salon • Aug. 26, 2025

The vegetal, resinous scent after harvest — similar to a fresh-mowed lawn — is what brewers try to harness into a “fresh beer.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2023

Her dark-hued, resinous, trembling-vibrato soprano has an inherent morbidity, haunting in both Fedora’s longer lyrical lines and speech-like parlando.

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2023

Bornstein is more poetic: “The resinous leaves have an intoxicating fragrance.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2022

So Will watched as the flames roared along the resinous twigs, and with streaming eyes and scorched hands he adjusted each fresh branch till the heat was focused as Iorek wanted it.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman