pungent

In a sentence

Six example sentences with pungent, each labelled with its topic.

• One spoonful of fermented shrimp paste turned the whole broth pungent enough to clear the kitchen in seconds.

  Cooking

• Downwind of the paper mill the air stays pungent, and residents can name the smell before they see the smokestacks.

  Environment

• The nurse waved a pungent ammonia capsule under his nose, and the fainted runner opened his eyes almost immediately.

  Medicine

• The spice market's air was pungent with dried chili and cumin, and we could smell it two streets away.

  Travel

• Sulfur compounds give rotten eggs their pungent smell, and the nose can detect them at a few parts per billion.

  Science

• Medieval tanneries were so pungent that towns pushed them downstream, well beyond the last houses and the market square.

  History

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