Example sentences for: boil

How can you use “boil” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Carroll may have taken it from the Scots language, in which it means to bubble or boil up, like water from a spring; for Scots burble-headed means stupid, confused.

  • While the ASPCA and PETA chapters compose their indignant letters to the editor and heat their vats of oil to a rolling boil, let me explain.

  • Again I was guilty of trying to boil Bown's argument down to a formula.

  • Shaping a vessel in which to boil water shouldn't be that difficult--more a matter of "duh" than design.

  • Zeiosis, which comes from the Greek word Zειω meaning "to boil over" [ 21 ] , is characterized by violent cytokinesis with continuous bleb extension and retraction.


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