How to Use sour on in a Sentence

sour on

verb
  • Politico reported this past week that Trump has soured on that rule.
    — Bloomberg, Oc Register, 7 May 2026
  • At the same time, some investors are souring on the company.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • He’s soured on the idea altogether.
    — Erika Ebsworth-Goold, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2026
  • In the sixteenth century, people started to sour on his work.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Rue eventually sours on her gig with Laurie and opts to jump ship for a new kingpin.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 12 Apr. 2026
  • At Cote 550, there’s a Midori sour on the cocktail list!
    — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 24 May 2026
  • These advocates are a minority in a country that has largely soured on its regime.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 1 May 2026
  • Wall Street analysts soured on Coinbase.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 8 May 2026
  • Wall Street analysts soured on Coinbase .
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 8 May 2026
  • Reviews are sour on How to Make a Killing at 51% Rotten.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Investors did not suddenly sour on protecting the cloud and fall for protecting AI.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
  • By then, even the Democratic-Republicans had soured on France.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Investors may have soured on Alphabet due to Google’s recent loss of star AI talent.
    — Benjamin Guggenheim, Washington Post, 24 June 2026
  • But the president reportedly began to sour on Gabbard after one of her top aides resigned in protest of the Iran war.
    — Brooke Migdon, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026
  • On posted another significant sales increase as the company looks to win back investors who have soured on the stock as its rapid growth story begins to slow down.
    — Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 12 May 2026
  • Retirement savers have soured on bonds Bonds are supposed to deliver safe, predictable income, and to serve as a foil to mercurial stocks.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 16 May 2026
  • Outside Netflix, parts of the entertainment industry began to sour on the couple.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The widening inequality in America has prompted households with fewer means to sour on the economy over the past year.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The podcast also failed to reveal why Tkachuk had soured on the Senators, though his final season with the team wasn’t short on public fireworks.
    — Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • However, a look at Meta’s free cash flow shows why investors are souring on exorbitant AI spending.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • California voters in other recent polls were also sour on a third presidential run by Harris.
    — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
  • When the war began at the beginning of March and the cost of daily life began to rise sharply, Americans quickly turned sour on their own finances, new data shows.
    — Brian Cheung, NBC news, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Larger lobbying investments come at a moment when more Americans are souring on Big Tech and their big plans for the future.
    — Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • But Burger King believes the Whopper changes are subtle enough not to offend fanatics, while luring back customers who may have soured on the brand.
    — Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Money, 26 Feb. 2026
  • On the downside, critics are a bit more sour on Mandalorian and Grogu than Solo, 61% fresh to 69%.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 22 May 2026
  • Baldoni and his co-defendants have argued that public opinion soured on Lively organically.
    — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Unable to conquer his doubts about that idea, Oosterhoff eventually soured on anthroposophy too.
    — Charles Lane, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2026
  • There’s some of the younger Tom Cruise in how Chalamet’s star has soared, as well as how some have soured on him (even if Scientology isn’t to blame in the younger man’s case).
    — Josh Spiegel, HollywoodReporter, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Perhaps a needy team circles back for Jones after souring on a quarterback class that drops off after former Cal star Fernando Mendoza.
    — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Iowa Democrats see an opening, especially as one of the states where recent special elections have seen notable shifts towards Democrats even as voters have soured on the national party's brand.
    — Stephen Fowler, NPR, 31 May 2026

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