How to Use distillation in a Sentence

distillation

noun
  • During the distillation, a piece of meat is hung at the top of the still.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • And that to me is like the perfect distillation of our lives and during covid.
    Washington Post, 11 May 2021
  • When asked if this is the purest distillation of the band’s sound, Hemmings agrees, albeit with a caveat.
    Mike Wass, Variety, 22 Sep. 2022
  • All of the work — from distillation to packing — to this day is still done by the family.
    Chanslor Gallenstein, National Review, 27 Feb. 2021
  • According to the brand, the Wagyu was wrapped in twine and suspended in the clay pots to cook for 14 hours during the first part of the distillation process.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2024
  • As such, this is one of the few mezcals that uses wild agaves in its distillation.
    Richard Carleton Hacker, Robb Report, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The words unfurl like a ticker-tape distillation of what’s new in the mainstream.
    Max Norman, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2023
  • In the simplest terms, dunder refers to what’s left in the still after distillation.
    al, 24 May 2020
  • My palate is my strength and post distillation has been my focus over the last seven years.
    Fred Minnick, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • Derived from the steam distillation of the wood, the oil is used sparingly in some recipes for some unique flavor.
    Kat Odell, Vogue, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The Fight Club in Ong Bak scene is an almost perfect distillation of the form itself.
    Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Billy Madison was the first of these movies and its purest distillation.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2024
  • In this case, that was done for me initially by Andrew Davies as the distillation of the novel.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
  • According to a rep for the brand, stone ovens are used to cook some of the agave as well, and distillation takes place in copper pot and column stills.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The Premier League is a distillation of the most elite collection of talent in sports.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The result feels like a distillation of everything that has made the 1975 one of the most influential bands of the past decade.
    Vulture, 14 Oct. 2022
  • One of the clearest distillations of this approach is also one of the most famous.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2020
  • The new album is even tighter and more focused, a neater distillation of Royal Blood.
    Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 28 Apr. 2021
  • After talking to pollsters for the last year, here’s my best distillation of tips for reading the polls.
    Christian Paz, Vox, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The gin was sweetened, usually to hide off-tastes from the distillation.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The liquid that trickles out of the other end of the still after the final distillation is mezcal.
    Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The reference to 1952 is the cask number, not its distillation date.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The yeast makes a wine which, in turn, undergoes distillation.
    Betsy Andrews, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2021
  • The playwright’s distillation of language forced Lloyd to match it with his staging.
    New York Times, 9 Jan. 2020
  • But that, too, is very on brand for Trump, a perfect distillation of his unique take on marketing.
    Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2022
  • By the end of the distillation process with a pot still, the distillate has been divided into a few fractions.
    Michael W. Crowder, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The movie’s distillations of great passions are, for the most part, stated rather than created.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The great thermostat debate has been used as a distillation of a simple fact: Offices are not built for all of us.
    Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2022
  • British records of the method may have influenced William Champion, a British metallurgist who patented zinc distillation in 1738.
    Byvaishnavi Chandrashekhar, science.org, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Most of FromSoftware’s games have received expansions that generally act as distillations of the themes and challenges of the original game.
    Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024

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