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Example sentences for: leaven

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He was a maestro, all right, but of the sadistic kind, and the movie's laughs didn't leaven its punishingly untranscendent misery--they condensed it.
Walker has made his fortune by packing in all the maggoty, sadistic details that the creators of Hunter and The Commish left to the imagination and that even such coolly clinical cop series as The X-Files and Homicide have opted to leaven with reminders of the fundamental beneficence of humankind.
Critics who gripe about the perils of sports gambling and the evils of convenience store slot machines leaven the pro-gambling folks.