acidityin a sentence
- The mere thought of adding acidity to my stomach stirred more nausea.† (source)
- The trees were carnivorous too, but at a much lower level of acidity, safe enough to stay in for the night while the rest of the island seethed.† (source)
- I was planning on assessing the acidity of the soil in my garden for the rest of the week.† (source)
- He noticed Gibbon's acidity, but not his tolerance, Othello's love for the fair Desdemona, but not Iago's perverted love of Othello.† (source)
- ONE DAY Saeed and Nadia were returning home with no food but modestly full bellies, after a reasonably good evening of foraging, and she was experiencing the peculiar sweet aftertaste and acidity of mustard and ketchup, and Saeed was looking at his phone, when they heard shouting up ahead and saw people running, and they realized that their street was under attack by a nativist mob, Palace Gardens Terrace being roiled in a way that belied its name.† (source)
- The acidity of the juices made the meat tender and gave it extra flavor.† (source)
- Colonel Aureliano Buendia released a sonorous belch which brought back the acidity of the soup to his palate and which was like a command from his organism to throw his blanket over his shoulders and go to the toilet.† (source)
- The acidity immediately made his eyes feel as if someone was touching them with a hot poker.† (source)
- Blood chemistries, pH, acidity and alkalinity, the whole thing.† (source)
- ") Jeannie was biddable and unassuming; she lacked Amanda's acidity.† (source)
- On the display screen, he saw what he wanted: growth of Andromeda as a function of pH, of acidity-alkalinity.† (source)
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- The results were quite clear: ACIDITY OF MEDIUM AS LOG H - ION CONCENTRATION CORRECTED FOR SKEW MEANS, MODES, S.D. FOUND IN CORREL/PRINT MM-76 CALL COORDINATES O.Y.88.† (source)
- We feel the influence of fear in it; just as we constantly feel an acidity which is the result of oppression, a buried suffering smouldering beneath her passion, a rancour which contracts those books, splendid as they are, with a spasm of pain.† (source)
- He warned Miss Pole of her stomach-acidity, he called it--and he may have meant to be kind.† (source)
- The Vicar answered with some acidity, and Mr. Graves replied in a tone which the widower thought too authoritative for the occasion.† (source)
- "Very likely," says the doctor: "I have known people eat in a fever; and it is very easily accounted for; because the acidity occasioned by the febrile matter may stimulate the nerves of the diaphragm, and thereby occasion a craving which will not be easily distinguishable from a natural appetite; but the aliment will not be concreted, nor assimilated into chyle, and so will corrode the vascular orifices, and thus will aggravate the febrific symptoms.† (source)
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