Example sentences for: sour

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

  • And yet, before he turns completely sour, Jack makes a pretty unbeatable case for leaving the cloister.

  • DeSimone believes that he has identified the proton channel involved in sour taste as well as an ion channel that could be the second salt receptor, and he plans to do knockout experiments on both.

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

  • The five qualities that Lindemann refers to are salty, sour, bitter, sweet, and umami, the last being the Japanese term for a savoury sensation.

  • "There's pleasure on every page of this pitch-perfect evocation of a sour, anxious half century" (Malcolm Jones Jr., Newsweek ). Slate's Walter Kirn is virtually alone in finding the book indulgent and vapid.


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