sourness
Example Sentences
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Yet success soon turned to sourness in his relationship with the hierarchy.
From BBC • Jan. 1, 2026
That this sourness tinges the latest “Joe Schmo Show” may be unavoidable.
From Salon • Jan. 21, 2025
Adding heat with a spicy chili pepper can make your cranberry dish more complex while reducing sourness and astringency.
From Salon • Nov. 25, 2024
The sourness of the characters isn’t artificially sweetened, but bad behavior is shadowed by vulnerability.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024
Faint smells of autumn touched the air, the scent of ripening apples, a sourness of dead leaves, cornstalks drying in the fields.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
