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pungent
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  • There's a pungent odor coming from my gym bag.
    pungent = strong
  • A sudden breeze carried a familiar, pungent smell.  (source)
  • 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
  • Rieux sniffed the pungency of bitter herbs in the drink that Rambert handed him.†  (source)
  • The janitorial closet smelled pungently of bleach and cleaning solvents.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • What she loved best was to rub the leaves of the tomato plant between her fingers and breathe in their pungent, powdery smell.  (source)
    pungent = strong
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I smelled tobacco on him and alcohol, sweet and pungent.  (source)
    pungent = powerful smelling
  • 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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