How to Use sour on in a Sentence

sour on

phrasal verb
  • But the billionaire seems to have soured on the company.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Instead, team members looked up Story and soured on the idea.
    Frank E. Lockwood, arkansasonline.com, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Playing Hearts songs again was thrilling at first, but after a few years, Six began to sour on the project.
    Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Whether Nerds are perceived as sweet or sour on Sunday is up to the audience.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Three years later, many of those same people have soured on working full time at home.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 1 July 2023
  • Some said that in the coming months, investors will sour on the sky-high stock prices, while others said room for growth remains.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 20 July 2023
  • Over time, Alex soured on the experience of working at ESA.
    Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2023
  • If any of the promising data points about the job market were to sour then young people might start to sour on the economy, Guichard says.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 29 May 2024
  • These have been Trump’s words for the past five years, and the very people who could help elect him have totally soured on elections and voting.
    David Paleologos, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But with production well underway, sources say, The Weeknd had soured on the work and asked Levinson to get involved.
    Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
  • Maybe investors have soured on a whole sector, and a company has been dragged down alongside its peers.
    Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 12 July 2024
  • Just because the Founders soured on their ruler later in life should not turn the rest of us against this pleasant, efficient system.
    Alexandra Petri, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
  • Murdoch and his family have soured on DeSantis, who trails Trump in the polls by a wide margin.
    Joel Mathis, The Week, 13 July 2023
  • Money would not be a problem for Youngkin, who has support from some megadonors who have soured on Trump and DeSantis.
    Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The longer-term prospects for Japan, the third-largest economy, are looking good when parts of the world are souring on the second-largest economy, China.
    Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • It has been seen as an alternative for those who have been souring on Twitter.
    Anne D'innocenzio, Fortune, 23 July 2023
  • The companies bled money, and Wall Street soured on their businesses.
    John Koblin, New York Times, 26 May 2024
  • But young voters have since soured on the oldest-ever president, who turned 81 on Monday.
    Courtney Subramanian, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • But Americans, satisfied to have beaten the Soviets to the moon, had already soured on the space program.
    James Rosen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Tangent Trump is sour on the first two debates, in part, because of his qualms with the two hosting entities, the Times reported, citing sources.
    Sara Dorn, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • In what ended up being a fatal blow to her chances, Ms. Quinn had paved the way for Mr. Bloomberg to run a third time by helping overturn the city’s term limits law, a move that voters had soured on.
    Eliza Shapiro, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The race so far has been painted largely as a two-man race between Trump and DeSantis, Haley said, but voters are likely to sour on one.
    Maya King, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
  • But some donors who have soured on DeSantis are not ready to turn to Youngkin, who will not hit the halfway point of his four years as governor until January.
    Maeve Reston, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • And the artists who do manage to become successful after working with him, like Kendrick and The Weeknd, often end up souring on him for unknown reasons.
    Hazlitt, 30 May 2024
  • But that doesn't necessarily mean the voters souring on Biden are turning in favor of Trump.
    Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 11 July 2024
  • The state-level data may help shed light on why many Americans have soured on the economy, which by many measures appears strong, with a low jobless rate.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Israelis have often soured on their government after war breaks out.
    Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 29 Nov. 2023
  • DeSantis and Haley will have the unique power to speak directly to these Republicans who are sour on Trump.
    David Paleologos, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Last year, Wall Street soured on stocks as the Federal Reserve began a regime of interest rate hikes to battle record-high inflation.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 8 June 2023
  • But in 2003, Gilead executives began to sour on rushing it forward.
    Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 23 July 2023

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