Example sentences for: distillation

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

  • A partially successful cloning attempt by Dr. Evil's henchman, Number 2 (Robert Wagner), has produced a true heir: a one-eighth Dr. Evil replica (Verne J. Troyer) dubbed "Mini-Me" who's like a distillation of the archvillain's most feral impulses.

  • Some manual handling tasks persist post-process change including cleaning tools and equipment and pouring used dibasic esters into the distillation unit.

  • In the cleaning operations, the largely manual, uncontrolled processes, including pouring, stirring, mechanical cleaning, and emptying contaminated methylene chloride into either waste containers or the recycling distillation unit, would have contributed to potential over-exposure.

  • I've never seen a more vivid distillation of rock's allure than the scene in which he reverently opens the new Brian Slade album--its centerfold image is a lithe, naked, green-tinged Maxwell Demon--slips the vinyl out of its paper jacket and, after gingerly setting the LP on the turntable, props a chair under the doorknob to keep the uncomprehending world at bay.

  • Memorizing words is not the point of this book which, in addition to two titles, has a subtitle: “A literary distillation of The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Webster's International , and Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words .” The book is a list of words, with remarkably succinct definitions, that have captured the author's fancy for one reason or another.


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