The air was stuffy and smelled faintly sour.

The air in the room was close and faintly sour with furniture polish.

The smell was faintly sour and not particularly pleasant, but it should work unobtrusively on the female instincts.

It had a faintly sour and astringent smell, the same he'd noticed when he opened the airlock door.

Yet again the tang of faintly sour notes wafted from the emotive phrases.

I was sipping from a ceramic bowl the last of something that tasted salty and faintly sour when she appeared at the door.

After months on the steppe, he hardly noticed the faintly sour taste-and it, too, was warmth of a sort.

The only faintly sour note was Fiona's continuing dislike, but that was easily understood.

Adam swallowed some of the soup; it was delicious and delicate, with a faintly sour, sorrel taste.

She had a faintly sour smell and he wondered if it was the odor of pain and fear.