Example sentences for: piquant

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

  • It is worth noting that the first element of clue M. consists of the four words On reflection the parts . The comma, correctly inserted between reflection and the , may mislead, but such punctuational conflicts are considered perfectly legitimate, or even a piquant little feature.

  • What looks suitable now is fur in piquant traces, decorative little sealskin scarves or squirrel trim for hoods or neat fox collars for coats.

  • The NYT runs a vaguer story inside about the indictment that doesn't mention any Clinton plots, but under a piquant headline: "A Formality In a World of Missiles."

  • Most piquant detail: Frances Glendening's assumption that this is a universal experience.

  • For its part, The King of Comedy , a creepy reprise of Taxi Driver --played, this time, for laughs--is a movie made before its time, back when celebrity-stalking was a piquant metaphor for our cultural ills, rather than the focus of our cultural life.


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