in-a-sentence.com, use sour in a sentence

Use sour in a sentence

Sentences ending with sour

The one in the Senate changed color, and got sour. [4]
The pupils enlarged, the lids half closed, the face grew sour. [11]
But one can never say what these politicians mean; and I shall let this variety grow until after the next election, at least; although I hear that the fruit is small, and rather sour. [4]
I'll travel by my star, get sweet or sour. [11]
Look like you, Jim, with a face to turn milk sour? [11]
I can imagine him, and how he must have to struggle not to be hard or sour. [5]

Sentences containing sour two or more times

You alone of all this parish, I believe of all this province, turn a sour face, a sour heart, to me. [11]

More example sentences with the word sour in them

I was sure you did evil because you loved it; that to gratify yourself you would spare no one: a man without pity--" "On the contrary," he interrupted, with a sour sort of smile, "pity is almost a foible with me. [11]
So, as the winter went on, she starved in silence, and no one had more than sour milk and bread and a potato now and then. [11]
Even Mr. Jacques, who was sour as last year's cider over the doings of Parliament, lost his heart, and asked why we were not favoured in America with more of his sort. [9]
The Tory gentry, to be sure, rattled about in their gilded mahogany coaches, in spite of jeers and sour looks. [9]
But instead of those you have offered them sour, unripe fruit, with a glittering rind-from your own garden, of your own growing. [10]
Yet these were the same people who couldn't endure the ship's tedious corned beef and sour kraut and other crudities. [5]
In one of the apartments some rough-looking peasants are eating dinner, a frugal meal: a dish of unclean polenta, a plate of grated cheese, a basket of wormy figs, and some sour red wine; no bread, no meat. [4]
On reaching the street, he pondered over the words in which he should apologize to Doctor Bontius, with a face as sour as if he had wormwood in his mouth; but his eyes and bearded lips smiled. [10]
During this most sour weather of the year, the anemone blossoms; and, almost immediately after, the fairy pencil, the spring beauty, the dog-tooth violet, and the true violet. [4]
Ah, the bad sour heart in him! [11]
He was a sour creature, unsociable, and had no companionships. [5]
They gave thee sour bread to eat ere thy going, but yet thee didst grind the flour for the baking. [11]
By the time she was in the best chamber, the last sour curl had disappeared from her mouth; and indeed all was snug and seemly therein; Dame Giovanna being well-skilled in giving things a neat appearance, well pleasing to the eye. [10]
So Dame Maria sat there in sour and virtuous dignity, looking like the Virgin Mary as painters and sculptors were at that time wont to represent her; and her farmer-son shuddered whenever his eye fell on his step-mother. [10]
Pap was standing over me looking sour and sick, too. [5]
I believe temptation often assails the finest manly natures; as the pecking sparrow or destructive wasp attacks the sweetest and mellowest fruit, eschewing what is sour and crude. [14]
These lemons are not so sour as the fellow who shows them: he is a mercenary dog, and his prices afford me no clew to the just value of oranges. [4]
It is great news, but the way he read so sour I do not like, ba su! [11]
I said as much to Clarence; but this mocking featherhead only said: "An Sir Kay had had time to get another skin of sour wine into him, ye had seen the accompt doubled. [5]
It is a mighty sour pill for us all, my friend--even the modestest of us, let alone the other kind, that think they are going to be received like a long-lost government bond, and hug Abraham into the bargain. [5]
Ay, there's no man too sour and no woman too old that he'll not blandish, if he gets the chance. [11]
I've seen the joy of life sob itself down to the sour earth. [11]
In households generally it was not under a month old, for beer was liked stale if it were not sour, while bread was desired as new as possible so that it was not hot. [4]
You are right, I was with Sabina a shorter time than usual; but she exerted herself in that short time to utter as many sour words as if we had been talking for half a day. [10]
In my shop I try to laugh as of old, and I am not sour or heavy, but I can see men do not say droll things to me as once back time. [11]
As soon as I had got myself mended up after a fashion, I ascended to the hurricane deck in a pretty sour humor. [5]
Here in this hole there is hardly a stall for an ass, and nothing but sour wine and mouldy beer. [10]
Beckoning Leicester to her side, she said a few words in an undertone, to which he replied with a smile more sour than sweet. [11]
Hour after hour he would sit looking from the great window out over the wide green valley, mourning bitterly, and feeling his heart shrivel up within him, his body grow crabbed and cold, and his face sour and scornful. [11]
The duke he fretted and sweated around, and was in a mighty sour way. [5]
On this Coeranus exclaimed, with a sour smile: "Admit that I am a true prophet! [10]
No one had ever seen Osterhaut quite so cheerful--and he had a bonny cheerfulness on occasion--as on this grisly October day when Nature was very sour and the spirit of the winds was in a "scratchy" mood. [11]
All had food enough to keep them from misery, though often it got no further than sour milk and bread, with a dash of sugar in it of Sundays, and now and then a little pork and molasses. [11]
The Governor greeted De la Foret with a sour smile, read to him the Queen's writ, and politely begged his company towards Mont Orgueil Castle. [11]
Then the Gaul came to our house, a man as acrid as sour wine, but with a fluent tongue and sparkling eyes. [10]
The judge was by nature of a sour disposition, but he haw-hawed so loudly as he explained to Mr. Price the identity of the road agent that the judge of probate in the next office thought his colleague had gone mad. [9]
She had had bitter griefs, but they did not sour her spirit, and she had had the highest honors in the world's gift, but she went her simple way unspoiled. [5]
He is as bitter and ungenial as a sour apple, and all the very best that you--a subtle thinker, a brilliant and cultivated philosopher--can find to say is no more appreciated by his meanly cultivated intellect than the odes of Sappho by a Nubian boatman. [10]
Diodoros's love had been to her like the fair and sunny summer days that turn the sour, hard fruit into sweet and juicy grapes. [10]
Indeed, it has been sour, chilly weather for a week now, raining a little every day, and with a very autumn feeling in the air. [4]
Nevertheless, I won't be sour, and I hope I'll never be unhappy--again. [13]
You used to be like a singing bird, and now you go about silent, you look sour and morose, and evil thoughts trouble your sleep. [10]
Sir John Enderby, aw loove thee better than the King, an' aw loove thee better than my Lord Rippin'dale-ay, theere's a sour heart in a goodly body! [11]
I ate several, and it seemed to me that they were rather sour that year. [5]
It's your game, and I'll eat my sour bread alone. [11]
Botcher and Jane and Bascom are circulatin' like hot water, tellin' everybody that because they wouldn't saddle the State with a debt with your bills you turned sour on 'em, and that you're more of a corporation and railroad man than any of 'em. [9]
Usually, when we alighted from our vehicle, the expression of mine host would sour, and his sir would shift to a master; while his servants would go trooping in again, with many a coarse fling that they would get no vails from such as we. [9]
Although the town afforded much pillage, the loss of so many troops so mixed the sour with the sweet that General Moyses could only allay his grief by sacking three other towns, Veratis, Solmos, and Kapronka. [4]
These were of a sour aspect, by reason that they lived on crabs, which abound in these parts. [4]
He was poor, a miserable fag, under the control of that mean wretch up there at the school, who looked as if he had sour buttermilk in his veins instead of blood. [6]

This page helps answer: how do I use the word sour in a sentence? How do you use sour in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word sour? It contains example sentences with the word sour, a sentence example for sour, and sour in sample sentence.