Words similar to distillation
Example sentences for: distillation
How can you use “distillation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
In addition to being eminently readable, my super-sentence is characterized by two clever strokes: a clause within a phrase within phrase within a clause within a phrase in the first five words, and the distillation of the adverb clause into a two-word cluster, “when [he was] challenged,” instead of the previous three words, “more than I.” Not only are all the structures as concise as they can be, but, with the exception of the subject, Leadere , all nouns, adjectives, and adverbs are now replaced by phrases and clauses.
The amount of blood drunk by each successive weasel (who is weighed before and after the drinking) is replaced by the same weight of a distillation of dew, soot, and aconite.
The distillation of the Whitney's new sedateness is "The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-1950," the first half of a millennial survey scheduled to occupy the entire museum for the next eight months.
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.
The distillation equipment had been purchased for methylene chloride recycling.