piquant - use in sentences

Modifies a noun

  • sauce: They serve the freshest seafood: try scampi in a piquant tomato sauce on a bed of pasta.
  • flavor: A faintly sad sight, but with the piquant flavor of the remote past.
  • cheese: Excellent with aged and piquant cheeses like parmesan and pecorino.
  • dish: However, it's the piquant local dishes as much as the imported staples of French cuisine that make dining such a treat.
  • taste: It had taken on an aromatic smell with an unusual piquant taste.
  • aroma: In short the Sun gives us a sweet yet piquant aroma.

Modifying Another Word

  • deliciously: A deliciously piquant dish of burgers, bullies and revenge!

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