Sentence examples for distinctly bitter from inspiring English sources

Some foraged plants have a distinctly bitter flavor, Mr. Ballard said.

Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk 256pp, Faber, £14.99 The refined intelligence of Rachel Cusk's writing, with its exhaustive clarifications, elaborate metaphors and distinctly bitter aroma, may not be everybody's cup of tea, but for those who appreciate that particular blend of qualities, her books are a source of rich pleasure.

Also, the milk of the latter tastes mild, while the milk of the first distinctly bitter.

The taste of the mushroom has been described variously as indistinct, or "distinctly bitter".

The red paper wasp, for instance, rates a 3 with pain that's "caustic and burning, with a distinctly bitter aftertaste.

Small and pale, she had a sweet, artless, and blues-tinged voice that made her the ideal performer of the new sort of popular song that was being written in the 1920s and '30s: ironic, sometimes bitter, distinctly urban, and full of the disappointment, loneliness, and joyless hedonism that filled the smoky clubs.

Now, lab tests reveal that bumblebees can learn to distinguish artificial flowers providing a sweet solution and having a certain pattern of electric field from similar artificial blossoms dosed with bitter liquids that sport a distinctly different electric field.

As well as tasting distinctly melon-y, cucumbers can also be quite bitter.

His sexual ambivalence, just like his bitter loathing for his first wife and his distinctly angular attitude to the British army, is latent and sometimes blatant in the novel.

Umami is often considered the fifth basic taste because it is distinctly different from the other basic tastes (sweet, salty, sour, and bitter) and it is believed to activate a separate set of taste receptors.

However, in practice it is possible to use more or less any liquid to make mashed potatoes, so the water from red cabbages provides a distinctly flavored pink mash or the use of a dark beer provides a slightly bitter and malty tasting brown mash.