Sentence examples for a soured from inspiring English sources

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The corporate exhibition, trade show and meetings businesses all have been clobbered in the last year by a soured economy that took hold a year ago and by the terrorist attacks in September.

Can a soured love affair ever end well?

The losses, which originated from a soured bet on derivatives, spurred Congressional hearings and several investigations.

Old cartons sat in the sand, giving off a soured reek.

The exits come in the aftermath of the trading blunder, which stemmed from a soured credit bet.

The revamp came in the wake of a $5.8 billion loss on a soured bet on credit derivatives.

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To paraphrase Chekhov's statement about the gun on the stage having to go off before the final act: if a writer gives a poor right-wing boy an unrequited, soured passion for a middle-class, left-wing girl, something awful is going to happen before the final chapter.

Often the tastiest dishes are prepared well ahead of mealtime: a broth soured with lemon and egg, eggplants simmered with a bit of meat, a cold artichoke heart braised in olive oil.

The Emirates has been a cauldron of tetchiness at times, the air a little soured by repetition, by the same old irritations.

If you really concentrate, you might discern a slight marmalade note in there, but its main characteristic, a curious soured lemon flavour, is mostly reminiscent of Shandy Bass.

"His temper might perhaps be a little soured by finding, like many others of his sex, that through some unaccountable bias in favour of beauty, he was the husband of a very silly woman – but she knew that this kind of blunder was too common for any sensible man to be lastingly hurt by it".

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