Example Sentences

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Peking duck gets its succulence from that bird’s fatty nature.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

“The Gilded Age” has always plied high-toned melodrama as its chief asset, but Season 3 ripens the starched formality of previous episodes into succulence.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2025

By mid-May, I’ll be granted the patience required of actual recipes, taking my time to explore asparagus’s nuances beyond its fresh and grassy succulence.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2023

I love white Bordeaux and I love the succulence of the sémillon grape.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022

We find no longer the rich succulence of Herodotus, no longer the strong filament of Thucydides, but thoughts fit only for the slave, and language for the rustic and the robber.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage