How to Use boil down in a Sentence

boil down

verb

• To avoid fraudster, the best advice boils down to this: Pay inside.
  — Joshua Hafner, ajc, 3 July 2018
• The rest of IoN's fun really boils down to tweaks and polish.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 16 July 2018
• So much of the game boils down to determining what can be manipulated in the first place.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 12 Aug. 2018
• So much of what passes for modern wisdom boils down to not letting yourself be affected too much, or in the wrong way, by others.
  — Eve Fairbanks, The New Republic, 5 July 2018
• But a major reason why the two autonomous runs were so different boiled down to a simple technical choice.
  — Sean O'Kane, The Verge, 3 Aug. 2018
• Her counterargument, essentially, is that his atheism, too, boils down to a kind of feeling.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
• After a month of wall-to-wall soccer, the World Cup boils down to this – one day, one game, one chance for France or Croatia to lift the biggest prize of all.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 13 July 2018
• Yet ultimately, the impact population has on soccer success boils down to a simple reality.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 8 July 2018
• According to Locastro, Lausanne’s scheme boils down to something simple: get the ball in Eric Gray’s hands.
  — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2018
• In the end, its long-term choice boiled down to picking between a pair of guys who had been on the same team since 2017 when Browning arrived at Ohio State.
  — Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 4 Nov. 2024
• Unfortunately, there is a lack of scholarly consensus on this, which boils down to disputes over statistical modelling.
  — George Russell, Fox News, 28 June 2018
• Viewed through a political lens, the answer boils down to two words: viability and vulnerability.
  — Sean Robinson, The Seattle Times, 5 Aug. 2018
• Southern chefs boil down the guts and pick the bones clean.
  — Allison Glock, National Geographic, 4 June 2020
• The head was for my grandma to boil down and use for tamales.
  — Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2020
• The margin of error seems to boil down to the shape of the face mask itself.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 28 July 2020
• The complaints from people in the UK boiled down to two main points.
  — Callum Booth, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
• Perhaps the silence on the Trump emails boils down to lessons learned.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
• This film, for Mann, boils down to the power of chasing a high.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
• Many of these fights seem to boil down to a question of how much to trust the reader.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2023
• The scope of those upgrades may boil down to Danny Green.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• So, the debate seems to boil down to this: is a half a loaf better than none?
  — Barbara Peterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Nov. 2018
• The reason why brown sugar clumps up boils down to how it’s made.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2024
• The outcome might simply boil down to whether Texas can find a way to stop Jaden Ivey.
  — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2022
• Forty gallons of sap boils down to about 1 gallon of maple syrup.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2024
• The remaining bones are then boiled down for about four hours.
  — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
• Much of it boils down to self-care, and ensuring she isn’t stretched too thin.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
• The rest of the lesson boiled down to this: Pay attention to nature.
  — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
• However, the game could boil down to a matchup of top running backs.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 12 Sep. 2019
• Following a tense day that featured bomb threats at polling places and voting misinformation, the race predictably boiled down to ballots in crucial swing states.
  — Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
• Then, more cider is boiled down into a thick, glossy caramel that magically reveals itself when inverted, running down the sides like a Willy Wonka waterfall.
  — Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appétit, 1 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024