How to Use distill in a Sentence

distill

verb
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  • They distill the whiskey from malted barley.
  • He has perfectly distilled the meaning of the holiday into a poem.
  • Cities that feel — to distill it to a single word — healthy.
    — Craig Mod, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2023
  • That’s the point of the 911 GT3: to distill Porsche’s unmistakable sports car to its essence.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2022
  • In art, late styles tend to distill all that came before.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • His ability to distill melodies to their essence works the same way.
    — Nathan Carson | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Anyway, here’s my best attempt to distill the year that was.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Try and distill it down to a paragraph or one sentence.
    — David Gaz, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Here are the beautiful brass tanks used to distill the world- famous drink.
    — Fox News, 22 May 2018
  • This back-and-forth seemed to distill the sick logic of the Weinstein affair.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2020
  • To see her distill it down to these minute little moments was fun.
    — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 28 May 2021
  • Count on us to distill all of the action into tidy, digestible news items that keep you up to date.
    — Tim Rohan, SI.com, 1 Sep. 2019
  • The company also distills liquors and has a cocktail menu in the speakeasy.
    — Julia Sayers, AL.com, 25 May 2017
  • The target in the first case was Diageo, a British company that brews beer and distills whisky around the world.
    — Peter Sayer, PCWorld, 4 May 2017
  • This claim is true, but requires some more context to distill how the discount came about.
    — Seth A. Richardson, cleveland.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Before the game, Nuggets coach Michael Malone tried to distill what has been going on.
    — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Chita, set against the backdrop of the Aichi Prefecture’s coast, is the only to distill grain whiskies.
    — Hannah Lott-Schwartz, Fortune, 16 June 2019
  • The goal was not only to distill but to also entertain and serve.
    — Kara Carlson, Dallas News, 12 Aug. 2019
  • For years, the younger Van Winkle struggled to make ends meet and find places to distill and distribute his whiskey.
    — Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online, 1 May 2021
  • The water used to proof and distill the vodka comes from springs fueled by snow and rainwater.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Kim's meeting with the Uganda president isn't the first time that KKW has had to distill her life's work into the barest of facts.
    — Andrea Park, Teen Vogue, 16 Oct. 2018
  • For every frustration in Javed’s life, there is a verse that distills it.
    — J.t., The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Then distill those business concepts down to the most basic idea.
    — Chris Venezia, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Lydia’s speech distills what is so great about Latinx shows about mom-dom.
    — refinery29.com, 11 May 2018
  • It’s hard to distill all the choices of concerts in Connecticut.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 6 Oct. 2019
  • But by the 12th century, the people of the Bhil tribe of Zawar had found a way to distill zinc by smelting ore in a closed furnace.
    — Byvaishnavi Chandrashekhar, science.org, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The single franchise that kind of distills everything about being a modern fan in the NBA right now is the Bucks.
    — SI.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The Times’ arts team waded through the city’s sea of cultural happenings to distill the highlights for you.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • But a play distills behavior in a way nothing else can.
    — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Leaders can either build an in-house machine learning team or retain validated service providers to distill and host their open-source models.
    — Liam Collins, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024

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