Example sentences for: piquancy

How can you use “piquancy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Somehow Brad Pitt doesn't have the same piquancy.

  • The way the beast is finally snared has a certain architectural piquancy.

  • The daft charm of Edgar Rice Burroughs' protagonist--a little boy raised by gorillas whose animal and human languages are constantly vying for supremacy--doesn't have the same piquancy when the gorillas talk like characters from Leave It to Beaver . If we're all the same under the skin (or fur), then what's the point of the story?

  • Those things all seem part of fashion's usual piquancy.

  • That the actor has condemned so many killers to death with his .44-caliber Magnum gives the liberal thrust of True Crime a certain piquancy: Only Eastwood can go to San Quentin.


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