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Six example sentences with piquant, each labelled with its topic.
A spoonful of the green sauce turns the plain rice piquant, and the heat arrives a second after the salt.
Cooking
Patients on that drug report that everything piquant tastes flat, so the dietitian doubles the vinegar in every recipe.
Medicine
Food photographers spray glycerin on anything piquant, because a wet chili reads hot on camera and a dull one does not.
Photography
The night market in Penang sells a piquant noodle soup that regulars order with extra lime and chili.
Travel
Capsaicin makes a chili piquant by triggering the same receptors that sense heat, which is why the mouth feels warm.
Science
Roman cooks made bland grain porridge piquant with a fermented fish sauce traded across the whole empire.
History
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