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

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024