DISTIL in a Sentence
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14 example sentences for DISTIL, such as:
1. Tears distil slowly from her eyes at such a emotional moment.
2. Barley is one of the main inputs to the process of distillation.
3. And if you feel you must distill the history from the fiction, then you are welcome to do research of your own.
2. Barley is one of the main inputs to the process of distillation.
3. And if you feel you must distill the history from the fiction, then you are welcome to do research of your own.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of DISTIL
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distil
v. undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops
v. give off (a liquid)
Classic Sentence:
1 The venerable Isaac is subjected to an alembic, which will distil from him all he holds dear, without any assistance from my requests or thy entreaty.
2 For three days he watered this cabbage with a distillation of arsenic; on the third, the cabbage began to droop and turn yellow.
3 Poor, dear woman," said Debray, "she is no doubt occupied in distilling balm for the hospitals, or in making cosmetics for herself or friends.
4 By the evening of that day Napoleon was back at work, and on the next day it was learned that he had instructed Whymper to purchase in Willingdon some booklets on brewing and distilling.
5 And so he would now study perfumes and the secrets of their manufacture, distilling heavily scented oils and burning odorous gums from the East.
6 The room was a shell, singing of what was before time was; a vase stood in the heart of the house, alabaster, smooth, cold, holding the still, distilled essence of emptiness, silence.
7 A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
Context Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
8 It might be the exhilaration of that potent cordial which is distilled only in the furnace-glow of earnest and long-continued thought.
9 It was also distilled to a volatile salts for fainting ladies, the same way that the horns of the male deer are manufactured into hartshorn.
10 He had failed in business in a licensed house in the city because his financial condition had constrained him to tie himself to second-class distillers and brewers.
11 ; the pupils in the seminary, these tender levities; errors imputed to newspapers, the imposture which distills its venom through the columns of those organs; etc.
Example Sentence:
1 Tears distil slowly from her eyes at such a emotional moment.
2 Barley is one of the main inputs to the process of distillation.
3 And if you feel you must distill the history from the fiction, then you are welcome to do research of your own.