DISTILL in a Sentence

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14 example sentences for DISTILL, such as:

1. Tears distil slowly from her eyes at such a emotional moment.
2. Barley is one of the main inputs to the process of distillation.
3. And if you feel you must distill the history from the fiction, then you are welcome to do research of your own.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISTILL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
distill
 v.  give off liquid; purify; refine; increase the concentration of
Classic Sentence:
1  For three days he watered this cabbage with a distillation of arsenic; on the third, the cabbage began to droop and turn yellow.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52. Toxicology.
2  Poor, dear woman," said Debray, "she is no doubt occupied in distilling balm for the hospitals, or in making cosmetics for herself or friends.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 109. The Assizes.
3  By the evening of that day Napoleon was back at work, and on the next day it was learned that he had instructed Whymper to purchase in Willingdon some booklets on brewing and distilling.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
4  And so he would now study perfumes and the secrets of their manufacture, distilling heavily scented oils and burning odorous gums from the East.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
5  The room was a shell, singing of what was before time was; a vase stood in the heart of the house, alabaster, smooth, cold, holding the still, distilled essence of emptiness, silence.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
6  A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
7  It might be the exhilaration of that potent cordial which is distilled only in the furnace-glow of earnest and long-continued thought.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
8  It was also distilled to a volatile salts for fainting ladies, the same way that the horns of the male deer are manufactured into hartshorn.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
9  The venerable Isaac is subjected to an alembic, which will distil from him all he holds dear, without any assistance from my requests or thy entreaty.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  He had failed in business in a licensed house in the city because his financial condition had constrained him to tie himself to second-class distillers and brewers.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
11  ; the pupils in the seminary, these tender levities; errors imputed to newspapers, the imposture which distills its venom through the columns of those organs; etc.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
Example Sentence:
1  And if you feel you must distill the history from the fiction, then you are welcome to do research of your own.
2  Barley is one of the main inputs to the process of distillation.
3  Tears distil slowly from her eyes at such a emotional moment.