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Example sentences for "sourness"

Lexicographically close words:
sourer; souring; sourire; sourish; sourly; sours; sourse; sourwood; sous; sousand
  1. None of his former vivacity appeared in his conversation; and his countenance was altered from being the picture of sweetness and good humour, not indeed to sourness or moroseness, but to gravity and melancholy.

  2. This gravity was not, however, attended with any sourness of temper; on the contrary, she had much sweetness in her countenance, and was perfectly well bred.

  3. There are no objects which do not, as to some of their phenomena, obey the principle of the Composition of Causes; none that have not some laws which are rigidly fulfilled in every combination into which the objects enter.

  4. Defn: The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper.

  5. Rhus typhina), whose acid berries have been used to intensify the sourness of vinegar.

  6. Note: The characteristic sourness of vinegar is due to acetic acid, of which it contains from three to five per cent.

  7. The method by which men of science establish the existence of that law is exactly the same as that by which we have established the trivial proposition about the sourness of hard and green apples.

  8. True, it is a very small basis, but still it is enough to make an induction from; you generalise the facts, and you expect to find sourness in apples where you get hardness and greenness.

  9. True, it is a very small basis, but still it is enough to make an induction from; you generalize the facts, and you expect to find sourness in apples where you get hardness and greenness.

  10. Rhus typhina), whose acid berries have been used to intensify the sourness of vinegar.

  11. The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper.

  12. The characteristic sourness of vinegar is due to acetic acid, of which it contains from three to five per cent.

  13. Taste the milk, and if you find that the slightest sourness remains, add a little more dissolved soda.

  14. Then put it into the oven as soon as possible; first tasting the dough, to discover if the sourness is entirely removed.

  15. Whenever a large amount of vegetable matter decays in land, acids are formed, and at times sourness of the soil results.

  16. There are, however, some methods that will help to determine the sourness of the soil.

  17. For if that Place which is consecrated for the wiping out old Miscarriages and the cementing of Love, comes to be unhallowed by Contention and Sourness of Temper, all Remedy for the Reconcilement is taken away.

  18. Because, of a Phaedrus, you seem to have become a Cato, there is so much Sourness in your Countenance.

  19. Enraged at this, Livia brought forth from her chapel some letters from Augustus to her, complaining of the sourness and insolence of Tiberius's temper, and these she read.

  20. The slight cast of sourness on his lower features had almost vanished, his nature seemed to have enlarged.

  21. Blackberries, blueberries or huckleberries, and red and black raspberries may be used for pie in the same way by merely varying the amount of sugar with the sourness of the berries.

  22. The proportion of sugar used for making cherry pie will, of course, need to be varied according to the sourness of the cherries used.

  23. The amount of lemon juice depends, of course, on the sourness of the apples.

  24. Rhus typhina), whose acid berries have been used to intensify the sourness of vinegar.

  25. He swallowed the exceeding sourness of a retort undelivered, together with the feeling that she beat him in the wrangle by dint of her being an unreasonable wench.

  26. A ruffle of sourness shot over the features of the earl, and was noticed by both eager betters, who exchanged a glance.

  27. It gives an ill-natured Cast to the Eye, and a disagreeable Sourness to the Look; besides, that it makes the Lines too strong, and flushes them worse than Brandy.

  28. However, this Humour creates him no Enemies, for he does nothing with Sourness or Obstinacy; and his being unconfined to Modes and Forms, makes him but the readier and more capable to please and oblige all who know him.

  29. If buttermilk cannot be had, acetic acid or vinegar, or the juice of lemons, may be mixed with sweet milk or even water, until the mixture attains about the usual sourness of buttermilk.

  30. Although this is itself acid, it acts so as to remove the cause of the sourness in the stomach, and is most beneficial otherwise.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sourness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acerbity; acidity; acridity; acrimony; anger; animosity; animus; asperity; astringency; bile; bitterness; cacophony; choler; clinker; disappointment; discontent; disharmony; dissatisfaction; dissonance; dryness; edge; envy; feud; gall; greenness; harshness; keenness; petulance; poignancy; pungency; rancor; resentment; restlessness; roughness; severity; sharpness; soreness; sour; sourness; spleen; stridor; uneasiness; unhappiness; vendetta; venom; virulence; vitriol; wolf