How to Use distill in a Sentence

distill

verb

• 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

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024