leaven
noun
a substance, as yeast or baking powder, that causes fermentation and expansion of dough or batter.
will leaven
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future tenseof leaven.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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This growing archipelago of excellence will leaven academia with the diversity that matters most.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2017
Maybe their presence will leaven this country a little bit.
From Time ● Jun. 21, 2013
Phil Silvers, Cyd Charisse, Nanette Fabray and Tennessee Ernie Ford join Danny for the first of six musical-variety specials that will leaven this new dramatic-anthology series.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is not so important that many should be as good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.
From Walden by Henry David Thoreau
But till these monuments of folly are levelled by virtue, similar follies will leaven the whole mass.
From Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
