How to Use leaven in a Sentence

leaven

verb

• He needs to leaven his speeches with more humor.
• The eggs are pure lushness but not heavy, leavened by the chives, the sweetness of the onions and just a trace of heat from the mayo.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• But its hope for the future was leavened by its fear of the unknown.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2019
• The goopy, living substance leavens the dough, helping the bread rise when baked.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2020
• It's just been leavened with a bit of hope for the future of the comic book and graphic novels.
  — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• But touches like the Ron Swanson leaven the deep thoughts with a little fun.
  — al, 7 Sep. 2021
• To leaven the choice, Bush designated Bob Teeter to be deputy chief of staff.
  — Tevi Troy, Washington Examiner, 18 Feb. 2021
• Also, any food made with grain or wheat can't leaven, or rise, Gopin said.
  — Michael Walsh, Courant Community, 27 Mar. 2018
• The songs are memorable and affecting, and the show is leavened with just the right amount of humor.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
• This traps the air bubbles, which helps leaven the cookies along with the baking powder.
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2020
• The sour batter serves as a flavor rather than a leavening agent.
  — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2018
• At Passover, leavened products and those made with grains are off-limits.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2018
• His brute force had always been leavened by a feathery touch around the basket.
  — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 30 Jan. 2018
• Pulque would supply a baker with an abundance of yeasts to leaven bread.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• At the bakery, fresh yeast is the leavening agent; home cooks can use active dry yeast instead.
  — New York Times, 10 Oct. 2019
• This, of course, was leavened by some blame-dodging worthy of Patches O'Houlihan.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 18 July 2017
• To commemorate this, Jews do not eat leavened bread for eight days.
  — Sarah Gray, Time, 15 Mar. 2018
• It is leavened with yeast and gets its delicious charred crispness from being slapped on the sides of a high-heat clay tandoori oven.
  — Anupy Singla, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• All the more reason, therefore, for the one person uniquely positioned to be a lever for peace, and leaven of justice, to act.
  — Tim Kelleher, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
• Theaters leaven the serious stuff with some crowd-pleasers.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Like any leavened bread recipe, pizza dough requires yeast.
  — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2020
• With little produce to garnish and leaven its dense core of Italian meats and cheese, though, this was one of the few sandwiches that didn’t charm me.
  — Craig Laban, Philly.com, 25 May 2018
• This near-tragedy of neglect is leavened by the eccentric charm of its central figures.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 17 May 2018
• Unbaked doesn’t use eggs (or any other leavening agent) in the raw cookie-dough batter, so don’t try to bake it.
  — Gwen Ashley Walters, azcentral, 13 July 2018
• In preparation for the holiday, there's all the cleaning required to banish chametz (leavened food) from the home.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 21 Feb. 2023
• Pearl ash, made by baking potash in a kiln, was used as a leavening agent in breads before the creation of baking powder.
  — Renae Reints, Fortune, 20 June 2018
• The two approaches can be combined, with a group exhibition of gallery standbys leavened with the work of a new artist or two.
  — Charles Desmarais, SFChronicle.com, 6 July 2018
• During this time, Jews aren't supposed to eat anything leavened, a.k.a.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 29 Mar. 2018
• Criticism of Biden is growing in Israel but is still leavened with gratitude.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
• The fiery performance, leavened by some humor at the close, aimed to rebut one of the main lines of Republican attack on Biden — the effort to portray the 81-year-old president as doddering and weak.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024