How to Use on a sour note in a Sentence

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• The evening ended on a sour note.
  — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
• Stocks kicked off the new month of trading this week on a sour note.
  — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 6 Sep. 2024
• However, his up-and-down year ended on a sour note.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026
• But the stock market kicked off the second quarter last week on a sour note.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN, 7 Apr. 2024
• The year ended on a sour note, with job gains slowing even more than in November.
  — Catherine Thorbecke, ABC News, 7 Jan. 2022
• Instead, Doval enters the season’s midway point on a sour note.
  — Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 14 July 2024
• So close to seeing such an emotionally taxing season end on a sour note.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2023
• But was convinced by his coaches and didn’t want to officially end his prep career on a sour note.
  — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2023
• It’s been quite the turnaround after his 2024 season ended on a sour note.
  — Manny Navarro, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
• Numerous seniors ended their careers on a sour note without a chance to compete for a trophy.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2021
• An otherwise entertaining year became quite messy in the final stages and ended on a sour note.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2025
• The Bearcats battled back to lose by just eight, but a 68-60 defeat began the year on a sour note.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 29 Dec. 2022
• While Fried’s year ended on a sour note, his debut season with the Yankees went well overall.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2026
• Work in progress Home Depot kicked off this week’s string of retailer earnings reports on a sour note.
  — Alex Harring, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2025
• Thursday’s trading moves come after a solid 2024 for stocks ended on a sour note.
  — Jesse Pound,christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC, 1 Jan. 2025
• However, the home series ended on a sour note in an unsuccessful comeback against Utah.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Jan. 2022
• De Zerbi’s excellence as a coach has never been in doubt but this job ending on a sour note is unfortunate timing.
  — Tom Burrows, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
• South avenged the defeat with a lopsided 10-1 victory and kicked off Chugiak’s senior night on a sour note.
  — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2022
• But Miami’s 2022 season ended on a sour note with a blowout home loss to Pittsburgh.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
• New York — Wall Street kicked off the week on a sour note, with stocks and bitcoin tumbling as a risk-off attitude spread through markets.
  — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 17 Nov. 2025
• Musk, who had been on OpenAI’s board, left on a sour note in 2018 after a power struggle.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2023
• And so their season ended on a sour note, clouded by off-field controversy and ultimately defined by shortcomings on the field.
  — oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2022
• This new chapter in Putin’s presidency began—circa 2011—on a sour note.
  — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 31 May 2022
• That included a takedown on a Hail Mary attempt to end the first half, sending the Tigers into the locker room on a sour note.
  — Quentin Corpuel, Kansas City Star, 28 Sep. 2025
• Pochettino oversaw a fun World Cup run this summer that ended on a sour note in the round of 16 against Belgium.
  — Chris Branch, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
• The young women learn that their dad’s time at El Bulli, the famed temple of molecular gastronomy, ended on a sour note.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2022
• Virginia’s Thornton brothers left on a sour note in the late aughts during a middling run of too-slick singles and a cataclysmic drug bust in the inner circle.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
• Humphrey left Georgia on a sour note, losing his starting spot with the Bulldogs following Week 10.
  — Tony Catalina, Austin American Statesman, 20 Aug. 2025
• Note that three of the four major indexes are close to their September 30 lows, and, as the week ended on a sour note, are likely to test those lows as the new week begins.
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
• However, spring begins on a sour note, as Venus—your ruling planet—will station retrograde in Aries as of March 1.
  — Roya Backlund, StyleCaster, 23 Dec. 2024