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Example sentences for: vinegar

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

Hard to say what that means, except stinging eyes, and besides, using half of each of two clichés is simply spilt milk off a duck's back on troubled waters: isn't it “spit and polish” and “piss and vinegar?”
Lacan's father owned a very successful vinegar distillery; the family were respectable bourgeois Roman Catholics.
She was in a French school in Paris that year, learning to read; the city was plastered with campaign posters for Tixier-Vignancourt, whom she thereafter referred to as “Monsieur Ticks-in-Vinegar.”
They may be little nothings, but they are also full of pith and vinegar, if you'll pardon the lisp.
Even in word-portraits of people, authors turn unhappy phrases: “His eyes seemed filled with spit and vinegar.”