1.   He handed me some black stuff which tasted bitter.

2.   The medicine tasted bitter.

3.   And salt makes sweet preparations taste sweeter and bitter foods taste less bitter.

4.   Avoid browning or they may taste a little bitter.

5.   But others thought it was not balanced and tasted bitter.

6.   By the fifth day, the mesclun mix had started to taste bitter.

7.   It tastes slightly bitter, and a synthetic version traditionally has been used as flavoring in soft drinks and chocolate.

8.   Q. Sometimes my cucumber harvest tastes disappointingly bitter.

9.   Since many different substances taste bitter, the researchers reasoned, there should be a family of bitterness receptors.

10.   This time, the medicine tasted oddly bitter, Harrison would later say.