Example Sentences

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Less good: a dish called “Maple & Bourbon Nueske’s Bacon” for $26, which immediately wafts a strong liquid-smoke scent across the table, then tastes acridly more so, adding a honey-sweetness to the bacon-fire.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2022

Neptune has always been a kind of upside-down Mayberry, an acridly heightened not-quite-real-world, awash in oleaginous one percenters and two-bit hustlers, all of whom can banter like Nora Ephron’s version of Philip Marlowe.

From Slate • Jul. 20, 2019

Borrowed from Dad, my own suit smelled acridly of mothballs.

From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2010

Playwright Hayes puts two sisters in a room with their dying mother and the pair harrow up the past and the present with bitter intensity and acridly funny put-down humor.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was more than a ring of arrogance in her tone, and, looking straight past him into the eyes of Gay Liscannon, she added acridly, "Whomsoever he may have thus distinguished in the past."

From Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa by Stockley, Cynthia