"detect" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Marritza attempted to smile as he guided Daul back toward the footbridge outside the little building, and again Daul thought he detected bitterness.
- The commander made a grimace in which Paoul detected great anguish and bitterness.
- While it is natural to detect bitterness and envy in Werner's letter, Jones points out that the criticisms might well have been legitimate, and that the letter produced a useful bureaucratic response.
- I detect bitterness, Waylander.
- This was also the smell of the future that he had firmly rejected, however, and underneath the mouth-watering savour, Tommy detected a cloying sweetness that, by virtue of its very intensity, would in time sour the appetite, nauseate, and leave the tongue capable of detecting only bitterness in any flavour.
- He said he detected bitterness or even desperation in the attitude of some women, because so many are competing for a pool of black men whose eligibility has been diluted by prison, drugs or unemployment.
- The taste buds in the tongue detect sweetness, sourness, bitterness and salt.
- I was sure I detected bitterness in his voice as he said: "What makes you imagine I should do so?"
- Luke detected bitterness in Khan's tone.
- If you detect bitterness in a dish from an ingredient like mushrooms or radicchio, salting tends to cancel it out.
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