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Example sentences for: leavening

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Dole rarely fished for sympathy when he retold the tale of his battle injury, leavening the reference by saying it won him a "bedpan promotion" to captain.
emptins ( n .) Collloquial shortening of emptyings , a preparation of yeast from the lees of beer, cider, etc., for leavening.