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

When the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed that work at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday, the voices were soft yet pungently permeating, redolent of a silent, stifling room of sleeping men.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2022

“This is social satire of a very high order, not quite Swift, perhaps, but very fast indeed, and pungently and acidly observed,” Los Angeles Times reviewer Sheila Benson wrote.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 22, 2020

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