Sentence examples for faint flavour from inspiring English sources
I couldn't see why the Banks children so loved a person whose favourite terms were "Pooh!" and "Humpf!" and whose most likeable personal quality was "the faint flavour of toast that always hung about her so deliciously".
AA Gill said the reason no one buys it is because it is "an insipid, clammy fish, with a faint flavour of fertiliser and the texture of a wet telephone directory".
Hide it under the cream, and whatever jam you use will only be discernible as a relatively faint flavour (I assume it is something to do with fat coating your mouth first, and inhibiting your tastebuds).
Every breath carried faint flavours of car tires and dirtied rags.
There's a faint Keatsian flavour to this week's poem, An Autumn Sunset, by the multi-talented American novelist Edith Wharton.
Even tap water can be made to look and taste enticing if you chill it, pour it into a jug and drop in coils of finely sliced cucumber or melon which give it a faint but not intrusive flavour.
But at least you will not have to eat a cold, stodgy puck of a pie, its pastry dry and brittle, its filling claggy, its aromas and flavours as faint as the chances of Theresa May's Brexit deal passing in parliament.
Broad beans, when fresh and young, have a delicate, asparagus flavour with a faint glueyness rather like okra.
All I am left with is a faint ghost of the original flavour.
