| Hot peppers derive their pungency from capsaicin, a substance characterized by acrid vapours and burning taste. |
| Isabelle tosses a quarter cup of curry into the wok and our kitchen fills with its muscular yellow pungency. |
| Bush tomatoes have an intense, earthy-tomato and caramel flavor of great piquancy and pungency. |
| The pungency of wasabi, horseradish, Brussels sprouts, and mustards comes from compounds called isothiocyanates. |
| Gardens smell different now, the pungency of aromatic foliage becomes more prominent with less competition from perfumed flowers. |
| The variety, character, and pungency of tone in the flue work, is as admirable as their reeds and swell organs are poor and defective. |
