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'sour' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'sour' with 9 example sentences.


sour adjective

: having a sharp biting taste

: smelling of fermentation or staleness

: one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons

: in an unpalatable state

: inaccurate in pitch

: showing a brooding ill humor

sour noun

: a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar

: the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth

: the property of being acidic

sour verb

: go sour or spoil

: make sour or more sour


  • These oranges are very sour.
  • Sweet and sour pork is my favorite Chinese food.
  • Milk goes sour in heat.
  • We make our own sour cream.
  • Her facial expression was more sour than a lemon.
  • I like sweet and sour soup.
  • Is it sweet or sour?
  • Don't make such a sour face!
  • The orange didn't taste either sweet or sour.
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