Sentence examples for sourness from inspiring English sources

'sourness' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is used to describe a taste or flavor that is acidic, sharp or tart. For example: "The lemon added a pleasant sourness to the cake."

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sourness

noun

The quality or condition of being sour, usually said of human personalities.

  • 1811 Mrs. Ferrars was a little, thin woman, upright, even to formality, in her figure, and serious, even to sourness , in her aspect. — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 2.1.

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It will react to bad news, but not to sour views.And sourness about Amazon seems to most Internet investors just silly.

If the speaker morally disapproves of all and only the sour things then her judgments of wrongness predicate sourness as the descriptive meaning of 'wrong'wrong

I could, to be honest, have added more, but the plan was always to use the ice cream to spread on bread and eat with a slice of ham, so I used just enough to balance the sourness and to give a backnote of honey.

The point of rhubarb, at least for me, is its bracing sourness, and that can be lost among the sugar and cream of an ice.

Talking of sourness, rhubarb is abundant in the shops at the moment, and deserves a life beyond crumble.

That did not mean, though, that he plunged into sourness.

The sweet version is often simply flavoured with sugar, which balances the natural sourness of the yoghurt, but can also be jazzed up with rose water, saffron or pureed fruit.

IT WAS his first trip to Europe since September 11th, his first ever to Russia, France or Germany and his first since the usual transatlantic backbiting reached new levels of sourness after his "axis of evil" speech in January.

Despite the failure of its economy and the sourness of its politics, it has done well to persuade the Russians that they should, by treaty, accept its statehood.

In opinion polls, the party now scores less than half of the 23% it won at the general election.In this section A long, unhappy marriage Southern exposure Canning's ghost Strutting their stuff Money for something Hacks and hacking Class struggle Gallows humour ReprintsBut a bigger factor in the change of strategy may be the sourness left by the referendum.

The animals' responses to the other four fundamentals of taste bitterness, sourness, saltiness and "umami" (the flavour of monosodium glutamate)—were unaffected.

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