Acid

//ˈæsɪd//

"Acid" in a Sentence (20 examples)

The acid burned the metal.

Acid rain in drinking water affects human health.

Acid fruits like pineapples and lemons are sour.

The substance must be treated with acid.

The decay of the shrine is due, in part, to acid rain.

The auditorium is terribly stained. It is, in part, due to acid rain.

The outside walls of the auditorium are terribly stained. It is, in part, due to acid rain.

There is too much acid in this orange.

The fish are dying, the Canadians say, because of what's known as acid rain.

The acid ate into the metal.

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acid fruits or liquors

His response was harsh and acid.

His voice was as stern and his face as acid as ever.

It must be admitted that Challenger is provocative in the last degree, but Summerlee has an acid tongue, which makes matters worse.

Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.

Like other nyssas, it is in nature a creature of swampy places and looks loveliest where massed close to water and reflected in it, but justifies itself elsewhere if the soil is moist and acid, succeeding in wet clay.

SE onset depends on a complex network of interactions among plant growth regulators, mainly auxins and cytokinins, during the proembryogenic early stages, and ethylene and gibberellic and abscisic acids later in the development of somatic embryos.

You are in error. / This is terror. / This is your banishment. This land is mine. / This is what you earn. / This is the Law of No Return. / This is the sour dough, this the sweet wine. / This is my history, this my race / And this unhappy man threw acid in my face.

In the end, though, there is one sure way to distinguish a real hippie from his assorted sympathizers: hippies drop acid. That is, real hippies frequently, if irregularly, ingest LSD.

SQLite relies on native file locking and page journaling to implement ACID properties.

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