soupcon in a sentence

Examples

1. They pulverized bones and removed the calcium from the resulting powder, working with the remaining soupcon of material to isolate the factor that was causing bone growth.
2. "I'm allowed to get hits, too, you know, " he said with just a soupcon of annoyance in his voice.
3. You get middle-aged yuppie perfection _ high-powered jobs and adventurous cuisine, but not even a soupcon of intimacy, spirituality, or romance.
4. Katonah Avenue, the main artery in the commercial district, looks like Main Street, U . S . A ., with a soupcon of artsy sophistication.
5. It's a lonely, high-wire act, the fund manager rising or falling on his wits, his wisdom and just a soupcon of luck.
6. Everyone _ from the beefy trainer in the gym to the guy in a black beret vacuuming the halls _ has been trained to speak a soupcon of French.
7. As in most art colonies, a lot of high jinks went along with the work : dinners, partying, drinking and maybe a soupcon of illicit lovemaking.
8. Are you using it as a " weasel word " because while it connotes " without emotion " it also tempers it with a soupcon of " impartial ".
9. He was trying to fool around with a dash of Eric Williams, a pinch of Doug Smith, a dollop of Charles Claxton and a soupcon of Junior Burrough.
10. More than Harris'previous books, " Hannibal " came across as a catalog of atrocities rendered with a soupcon of superiority, Gourmet magazine for sociopaths.