Example sentences for: piquant

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

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

  • 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."

  • The other epic elements of the show are insistent music, striking lighting, and a piquant setting, perhaps a skating rink.

  • And if what Mr. Bork is arguing today cannot be honestly derived from his seminal book 20 years ago, this makes the question of what Netscape is paying him for even more piquant.

  • 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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