Example sentences for: distills

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

  • USAT 's lead includes a quote from a fighter pilot that nicely distills G.I. geopolitics: "We're all a little itchy.

  • This quatrain distills brilliantly both the vapidity and ruthless single-mindedness of the Clinton administration.

  • A LAT front-pager distills scientists' early thoughts about what the Turkey earthquake portends for California's seismic future.

  • The heroes of Real Life (1979), Modern Romance (1981), and Lost in America (1985) have their jerky sides (emotionally squeamish viewers tend to find them repellent), but they also have compensatory gifts--chiefly Brooks' urgent babble, in which pleas are made and then restated and then turned inside out in a way that brilliantly (and hilariously) distills neurotic thought processes.

  • His campaign slogan distills the idealism of that era: "It can happen."


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast