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Example sentences for "sours"

Lexicographically close words:
souring; sourire; sourish; sourly; sourness; sourse; sourwood; sous; sousand; souse
  1. Defn: To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.

  2. Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours Up springeth into the air, right so prayers .

  3. To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.

  4. This natural raciness, the sours and bitters which the diseased palate refuses, are the true condiments.

  5. Thus, milk sours rapidly at ordinary temperatures until the accumulation of acid checks its development.

  6. It is somewhat surprising that in spite of the elimination of much organic matter and bacteria, such clarified milk sours as rapidly as the untreated product.

  7. Although cream is numerically much richer in bacteria than milk, yet the changes due to bacterial action are slower; hence milk sours more rapidly than cream.

  8. Indeed, it is definitely known that dirty milk sours much more quickly than does clean milk.

  9. Also, if it is fresh, it will not sour quickly after it is delivered, so that in case it is properly cared for and sours quickly, it may be known to be stale milk.

  10. It is because of this fact that milk often sours when the temperature is high, as in summer, for instance, even though it is kept in the refrigerator.

  11. Every one can take his choice, and whether he likes sweets or sours he can put his hand into his pocket and select the kind that suits him best.

  12. If it is kept in a warm place they increase in numbers at a rate that is marvelous, and consequently the milk sours much sooner.

  13. If milk remains sweet for a long time during warm weather, discharge the milkman and patronize one whose product sours more quickly, for milk that remains sweet has been subjected to treatment.

  14. Milk that sours in the sun or in an air-tight bottle is generally of poor flavor.

  15. If food is not soon digested it sours and decays.

  16. When a little fruit is set away in a warm place for a day or two it sours or ferments.

  17. But the father's temper is so placid and even, nothing ever sours it.

  18. In other cases the milk sours on the stomach, and then some antacid or alkali, like lime water or bicarbonate of soda should be added for several days or until the disposition to lactic fermentation has subsided.

  19. A shower that purifies the atmosphere, and refreshes the face of heaven itself, sours cream, just as love's sweetest expression sours these men.

  20. One thoroughly irritable person in a breakfast-room spoils coffee and toast, sours milk, and destroys appetite for a whole family.

  21. There was no fuss or cant about him: nor were his sweets or his sours ever diluted with one particle of affectation.

  22. But the sense of injustice and of undeserved ridicule sours the temper and narrows the views.

  23. I think if I had had outlaws every day that my keep wouldn't have cost Sours very much.

  24. Toward evening Sours came to me and said he wished I would spend the night in the barn and keep awake most of the time, as he was afraid it might be broken into by some of the graders.

  25. The Headquarters barn was mainly for the teams of people who put up at the hotel, but Sours had two horses which we sometimes let folks have.

  26. When I got back to the hotel Sours said to me: "Young man, don't you want a job?

  27. Sours told me in the morning that they were looking for the man that stole their dog, though he said he didn't think they had ever had a dog.

  28. Some others went on the same train with Mr. Sours and his wife.

  29. I guess Sours left some shooting-irons behind, too, didn't he, Jud?

  30. The "bum" ordered a whisky straight, and when he had been supplied with his favorite fluid, the barkeeper built the sours and took them to his waiting customers.

  31. Warren Sours went home; and as he entered the house with a jocular remark about the contaminated state of the atmosphere he was informed that until his arrival it had been quite satisfactory.

  32. I Avaunt, acerbid Brat of Death, that sours The Milk of Life and blasts the nascent Flowers!


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.