acidic

Example Sentences

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At home, I default to a simple formula: creamy + hot or herby + acidic.

From Salon

In science class he dropped a test tube full of a liquid that tested as strongly acidic.

From Literature

The country requires about 100,000 barrels a day; it produces 40,000 barrels a day of highly acidic heavy crude, used to fuel obsolete power plants.

From The Wall Street Journal

Roughly 8 feet square, this dense frontal forest of figures—part human, part animal, part vegetal—in acidic blues, yellows and greens, is Cubist, Surrealist, Afro-Cuban.

From The Wall Street Journal

Even if you don’t know her music, the film still works an acidic sketch of fame — “Spinal Tap” for the era of stan culture.

From Los Angeles Times