It tastes vaguely like chocolate and is often used as a substitute.

The air here was cool and tasted vaguely metallic, just as it had been during his first visit to the central habitat.

The bowls held a hot liquid that tasted vaguely of onions.

It was a dark reddish-brown in colour, almost as tough as high-impact plastic, and tasted vaguely of grass.

She finished every one of those test tubes and it all tasted vaguely like someone else's spit.

The blue turned out to be blueberry syrup; the green tasted vaguely like cornmeal mush.

It was moist and cool, and it tasted vaguely of roasted chestnuts.

The wines, all of them red, tasted vaguely like sangiovese, the principal grape in Chianti wine.

It had a soapy texture and tasted vaguely of fish.

Her saliva tasted vaguely of rust, like the iron tang of blood, but sweeter.