Example sentences for: sour

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

  • Since the Gingrich revolution went sour in 1995--and in a larger sense, since the party began feuding over George Bush's tax increase in 1991--conservatives have been a tribe lost in the wilderness.

  • The Jerusalem Post , by contrast, accused Arafat of having turned this "well intended gesture sour."

  • The only sour note comes from Jim Shepard in the New York Times Book Review , who writes in an otherwise laudatory review that "a surplus of sobriety may account for what weaknesses the collection has."

  • In Eyes Wide Shut , Kubrick can't manage to get past his sour detachment and enter into the movie.

  • A long piece on China describes one family's struggle to survive the Mao and Deng eras, while the opening "Comment" says that Chinese involvement in the campaign-finance scandal could sour Sino-American relations.


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