piquant

Example Sentences

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Like this exquisite, piquant one-pan wonder I learned to make a couple of summers ago at Lo Scoglio, the legendary hotel and restaurant on the Amalfi Coast of Italy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

The piquant pudding is one of many foods widely eaten in the Caribbean country that has its origins in Africa and has survived to this day.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2025

You open the door and get hit with that familiar, piquant draft of deli indulgence, and customers happily volunteer to tell you about their first visits, decades ago, with parents or grandparents.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2024

The flip side of the Clevelanders’ general unflappability, which served them so well in Prokofiev’s ardent, piquant musical language, was a tendency to smooth out a work’s individuality.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2024

She handed me a bowl into which the pig’s guts spilled like syrup, quivering pink, blue, and yellow, warm and musky, alive, hard to imagine as solid, piquant, brown sausages.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago