“The pungency of the sauce marries the shrimp and beef to create a harmonious whole the likes of which you have probably not experienced.”

“His witty sarcasm and stinging ridicule gave a zest and pungency to his observations and criticisms upon contemporaneous men and events.”

“Bush tomatoes have an intense, earthy-tomato and caramel flavor of great piquancy and pungency.”

“The house was over-warm, and there was a musty smell of over-aged furniture, old leather, and the pungence of mothballs.”

“It had a cured smell, the comfortable pungence of a can of pipe tobacco or mink coats in closets.”

“Animals do not distinguish between us and the other beasts, or between us and the rocks and trees, each with its pungence and relevance to the struggle for existence.”