Example Sentences

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The floating objects pungently evoke enslaved agricultural laborers, but the wooden path is the most important part, since it represents the road to freedom for 14 people in the Poolesville, Md., area.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2023

In a small audiovisual gallery, a loop of archival footage brings some pungently theatrical blasts from the past.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2022

Some diners describe the taste of lamprey as pungently fishy, while others call it meaty.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2022

He lacked the patience and discipline for literature—though he might have become, if he had stuck to journalism, a second Mencken, dispensing pungently funny observations of everyone and everything.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2019

The janitorial closet smelled pungently of bleach and cleaning solvents.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen