How to Use grain alcohol in a Sentence

grain alcohol

noun
  • There's also the ethanol method, which extracts CBD from the plants using high-grain alcohol.
    Tehrene Firman, Redbook, 5 June 2018
  • The soy sauce-like scent of the grain alcohol baijiu, made by the eponymous Kweichow Moutai Co., permeates the main street.
    David Rovella, Bloomberg.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Most troubling, the distillery — full of highly flammable grain alcohol, in the form of grappa — was still billowing smoke.
    Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Its distilling process requires only a neutral grain alcohol and juniper berries, and the rest of the components are up to the distiller.
    Jasmine Ting, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Most people drank the beer; a few not-so-subtly slugged from their own bottles of baijiu, a grain alcohol that dates back to the Ming Dynasty and burns like regret incarnate.
    Stacey Anderson, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
  • As one man douses its genitals with grain alcohol, another unfolds a Swiss Army knife, yanks the scrotum taut, and excises the testes in two quick cuts.
    Max Falkowitz, Saveur, 28 Nov. 2018
  • Her equipment is rudimentary: a jar of grain alcohol poured into a plastic Tupperware with a glowing bar of black light perched on its edge.
    Angus Chen, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2014
  • That means hits like grain alcohol, 151-proof rum, Everclear or anything your rogue family member made in a bathtub.
    Anchorage Daily News, 19 Nov. 2019
  • In the 1990s, for examples, some stores agreed to restrictions on Everclear grain alcohol and bottom-shelf liquors, but problems have persisted.
    Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Bitters are a simple combination of high-proof, neutral grain alcohol infused with bittering roots or herbs, and can be pepped up with aromatic and flavored plants or spices.
    Meghan Nesmith, Bon Appetit, 16 May 2017
  • Once recognized, neutral distillates or grain alcohol is then added to the recipe to synthetically formulate a wine or whiskey.
    Alan Goldfarb, The Verge, 23 Aug. 2018
  • After a grueling workout, refuel your body and lubricate your muscles with a combo of frozen mango, trace amounts of undisclosed grain alcohol, coconut water, and chia seeds.
    Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 4 Mar. 2020
  • None of them contain grain alcohol or artificial sugar.
    Kaitlyn Pirie, Good Housekeeping, 15 Apr. 2022
  • These sugary glazed golden globes have been gracing celebration tables in Poland since the Middle Ages, and their enduring appeal might be attributed to one unique secret ingredient: grain alcohol (the booze burns off in the cooking process).
    Joanna O'Leary, Chron, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Bitters have millennia of history behind them: Cultures in Ancient Egypt and China infused herbs, roots, and barks in grain alcohol for medicinal purposes.
    Meghan Nesmith, Bon Appetit, 16 May 2017
  • In one example of shocking behavior, my grandfather recalls men siphoning grain alcohol—intended to clean the command module—into baggies to take home and consume or sell.
    Matthew Beddingfield, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Earth Edith’s stone cleaner uses a natural grain alcohol base to create a natural solution to disinfect your granite countertops while still keeping them shiny.
    Nena Farrell, Sunset Magazine, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Sure, they’re made of the same material — poison — but while resentment is concentrated, a grudge is watered down, drinkable and refreshingly effervescent, the low-calorie lager to resentment’s bootleg grain alcohol.
    Alex McElroy, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Isopropyl alcohol contains 91% alcohol content and ethanol (also known as grain alcohol) contains 95% alcohol content.
    Rachel Moskowitz, USA TODAY, 14 May 2020
  • Pour le Monde perfumes are created exclusively from essential oils and extractions from botanicals, natural grain alcohol, and distilled water.
    Good Housekeeping, 11 Nov. 2013

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