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

It all plays like a modern riff on Roald Dahl, with that writer’s wit and penchant for the piquant cruelty of kids and adults alike, filtered through Elliot’s more wistful if equally whimsical sensibility.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2024

“Pisachi” alternates between hushed, singing harmonics and piquant rhythms painted in impassioned tremolos and spiky pizzicatos.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 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