Sentence examples for faintly bitter from inspiring English sources

(That's why turnips, sweet and faintly bitter, don't quite cut it; they have too much going on).

Old-timers are still faintly bitter recalling the years after the 1967 riots, when an entire community was fleeing.

With its decadent, demerara sugar nose and faintly bitter finish it seems particularly designed for the British palate.

A dish of unassuming greens turns out be fiddlehead ferns dusted with bonito flakes, a smoky, faintly bitter treat.

Almost everything I tried was tasty, beginning with the faintly bitter marinated potato strips, a variation on traditional pickled vegetables, that are served along with the menus.

Though Chinese truffles have a fungal flavor, they are not as strong as the famed French species and have a faintly bitter edge.

Another lookalike is L. colorascens, but it may be distinguished from L. vinaceorufescens by several features: a smaller fruit body; a whitish cap that becomes brownish-red with age and does not spot vinaceous or brown; bitter to faintly acrid latex; and slightly smaller spores.

The catcalls are just a habit these days, faintly smug, not so bitter.

I'll sample the window screens, too, the paint-cracked radiators, try the parquet wood flooring after my mother dusts, its slick surface faintly lemony and then bitter, like the skins of peanuts.

The doctors offer diagnoses and reassurances; Bauby is caressed, shoved, lifted, held, deposited, and washed with hands both rough and gentle, and, through all this, we hear his thoughts on the soundtrack — baffled and angry at first, then bitter (he faintly enjoys the black comedy of his situation), and, finally, soulful and eloquent.

It tasted faintly of honey, matched with floral highlights and a mild bitter finish.