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Example sentences for: tasted

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I wandered for two hours, sampling a ceviche-like fish salad, spiked with lime, cilantro, and hot sauce; tamales coated in a green mole sauce that tasted differently with every second it lingered on my tongue; and for dessert, golden empanadas filled with creamy rice pudding.
I also tried the Clif Bar in Apricot flavor, which basically tasted like dried apricots, but mushier.
Rembrandt Age Defying, when finally coaxed from its tube, tasted like rancid cinnamon and smelled of Ben-Gay--a miserable paste by any measure.
It tasted bad.
It could have used more bite, and it tasted a bit medicinal.