1 Biscuits and crackers are chemically leavened.

2 His mood of deep pessimism cannot have been leavened by his mode of transport—a black cab.

3 Her speech was leavened with a touch of humour.

4 The chairman leavened the dull meeting with a few jokes.

5 His intellectualism now was leavened by experience.

6 My affection for her was leavened with lesser likings and with admiration.

7 Organist Dan Wall's power is leavened with subtlety and his four compositions are perfect vehicles for Abercrombie.

8 He leavened his speech with humor.

9 I like his serious style leavened with wit.

10 Third World policy has leavened with diplomacy, elections, land reform and emergency help with debts.

11 I like to eat steamed bread made of leavened dough mixed with flour.

12 A small cake of shortened bread leavened with baking powder or soda.

13 But our optimism must also be leavened with caution. Malaria is a tenacious foe.

14 Ye shall eat nothing leavened ; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.

15 These are made of leavened dough, to which sugar,(www.Sentencedict.com) currants and spices have been added.

16 Even a speech on a serious subject should be leavened with a little humour.

17 What emerges from that tainted oven will likely be a typical loaf of local politics leavened by big money.

18 It's an early example of world music, with jazz rock elements leavened by Balinese disciplines.

19 So the stodgy respectability of the official state cinema becomes leavened with curious characters.

20 He has been giving his 25 - minute Harris monologue, leavened with humor, to enthusiastic audiences ever since.

21 With his peace - offering let him give cakes of leavened bread , as a praise - offering.

22 War to the Communists not being primarily a military affair, their frontline regiments were often leavened with a large smattering of nonmilitary personnel.