leavened

past tense of leaven

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for leavened
Verb
  • By contrast, Accra, the nation’s capital, with its Parliamentary Building and Black Star Square, is enlivened by streams of mellow banter and commerce.
    Edna Bonhomme, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Though Worthy’s spirit enlivened the group — he could be seen dancing and sharing team handshakes with other wideouts during practice this week — the Chiefs also welcomed receiver Rashee Rice back into their meeting rooms.
    Jesse Newell, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Treatments included volcanic stone therapy and sea salt scrubs infused with local herbs and essential oils.
    Lisa Greissinger, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Since developing the coffee program at Yum Village, where Nyles crafted coffee beverages infused with Afro-Caribbean flavors like lattes flavored with buttered rum and scotch bonnets, Hold Me Closer XX is now located inside the Corktown production studio 1301 Studios.
    Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The tobacco is imbued with prayer and its smoke takes that prayer to Creator.
    Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The first game famously took thirst-trap renditions of the Greek pantheon and imbued each figure with an insane amount of charm.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The film certainly steers clear of Emmerichian overdrive, but it is suffused with hopelessness — on both an intimate and an epic scale.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
  • But the hot gas that suffused the space between the galaxies in each cluster would have crashed head-on.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The team had already animated a cartoon film of three anthropomorphic sausages running across the Milwaukee skyline on the big screen and when they were seen to arrive at the gates of the stadium, the characters would race across the scoreboard as digital dots.
    Don Riddell, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The juried competition showcases the best of professional, animated, and student films selected from more than 2,100 entries annually.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Potential homebuyers were not quite as invigorated by the drop in rates.
    Diana Olick, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
  • But Thailand’s youth were invigorated and their protests, which were ultimately put down by authorities, ignited a progressive political movement that led to unprecedented electoral gains at the ballot box three years later.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Savannah, Georgia, is a city steeped with history and charm.
    Elliott Harrell, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Make sure to consult the steeping direction for each kind of tea, as different teas should be steeped for various lengths of time at different temperatures (hotter for black and herbal and cooler for green and white, for instance).
    Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • We’re almost inoculated by tragedy, although not in this case.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • George Washington required his troops be inoculated, the predecessor of vaccination, against smallpox during the American Revolution.
    Stacie Kershner, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Leavened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leavened. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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