Sample Sentences for
pungent
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    There's a pungent odor coming from my gym bag.
    pungent = strong
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    The size, the quick movements, the pungent odor, the hissing breath…  (source)
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    It was a Sunday in October, the air cool and pungent with dying things.  (source)
    pungent = strong smelling
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    A sudden breeze carried a familiar, pungent smell.  (source)
    pungent = strong
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    Rieux sniffed the pungency of bitter herbs in the drink that Rambert handed him.†  (source)
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    The janitorial closet smelled pungently of bleach and cleaning solvents.†  (source)
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    I had told you that this was in reference to Orion, formerly written Urion; and, from certain pungencies connected with this explanation, I was aware that you could not have forgotten it.†  (source)
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    After two years, rich, black, pungent Dutch coffee.  (source)
    pungent = strong-smelling
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    It was a most tedious business, not more than half a dozen shoots of garlic being discoverable in the whole field; yet such was the herb's pungency that probably one bite of it by one cow had been sufficient to season the whole dairy's produce for the day.†  (source)
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    Shavers pungently characterized the Teknologik executives: infamous self-aggrandizers, think of themselves as some kind of business royalty, but they are no better than us.†  (source)
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    He used flowery language like …. well, like every sentence was a pungent bouquet of metaphors.  (source)
    pungent = powerful
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    However this may discredit such persons with the judicious, it helps them with the people, as it gives heat, pungency, and publicity to their words.†  (source)
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    This thirst it appeared to be the design of my persecutors to stimulate: for the food in the dish was meat pungently seasoned.†  (source)
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