Sentence examples for pungent of from inspiring English sources

The fact that three-quarters of Jidda, a cosmopolitan port of some three million people, lacks a sewage system is merely the most pungent of Saudi Arabia's shortcomings.

Duncan Watmore's days of selecting the two least pungent of picking socks from the floor, NUS happy hours, cheaper train tickets and late-night all-day-breakfasts-in-can are over after he graduated from Newcastle University with a first.

But they have very little time to put a realistic concept of operations together, as Ahmed Rashid, most pungent of all Pakistan's analysts, argues in the Washington Post: The Taliban offensive in northern Pakistan has the potential to become a nationwide movement within a few months.

In the case of St.-Marcellins, the proper amount of aging, which varies from cheese to cheese, produces a supple exterior crust and a slightly runny, magnificently rich interior -- not as strongly flavored as Maroilles, the sweaty-socks cheese, or even Livarot, the most pungent of the fine Normandy cheeses, but voluptuous and by no means bland.

Here's the pregame rundown: Because of New Zealand's cool, maritime climate and stony soils, you can expect the Marlborough sauvignon blanc to be the far more pungent of the two wines.

This, grossly simplified, is the tale of "Dissident Gardens," Jonathan Lethem's rich, grotesque and tender family saga, the latest, most pungent of his accounts of growing up absurd in New York City.

Several Japanese performers talked of pungent memories of approaching war.

There was also the matter of the pungent aroma of marijuana seeping out of the car.

Ørsted's discovery (1820) of piperine, one of the pungent components of pepper, was an important contribution to chemistry, as was his preparation of metallic aluminum in 1825.

After a while, one became aware, as well, of the pungent result of increasing exertion.

A result, for Long Island City, is the loss of the pungent smell of warming yeast.