Sample Sentences for
condensation
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condensation as in:  condensation of water vapor

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She slipped on a sidewalk made wet by condensation from an air conditioner.
condensation = the process or result of becoming more dense -- especially a liquid formed from a gas as when water collects on the side of a cold glass
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    Condensation streamed down the windows.  (source)
    Condensation = water formed from water vapor
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    She could see her reflection in the darkened glass, lips parted, eyes wide, and then the condensation of her breath obscured it.  (source)
    condensation = moisture formed from water vapor
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    A fog of condensation had formed on the inside of the pane, so that her image appeared to him as a kind of silhouette, a vague impression of his mother at the sink, refracted and fragmented, a wash of color.  (source)
    condensation = water formed from water vapor
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    Snow was still thick upon the grounds, and the greenhouse windows were covered in condensation so thick that they couldn't see out of them in Herbology.  (source)
    condensation = water formed from water vapor
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    Books cut shorter. Condensations.  (source)
    Condensations = abridgements (shortened versions of writing)
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    It is primarily a condensation of the growing rivalry between two teen-age gangs, the Jets and the Sharks, each of which has its own prideful uniform.  (source)
    condensation = telling much background in a dense way
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    Two volumes of an encyclopedia, a book of business law, a world almanac old as the hills, some leatherbound Reader's Digest condensations.†  (source)
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    It stood untouched before him, beads of condensation clouding the glass.†  (source)
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    I could make something to collect the condensation, I'm sure.†  (source)
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    Condensation is dripping from the blade of Bruce Lee's samurai sword.†  (source)
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    I turned back to my accounts, saying: "Merely condensation, I believe, Miss Kenton."†  (source)
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    Or else it was the result of condensation; that would not be good.†  (source)
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    Dene waited for his moment, watched the kid tag in the condensation on the bus window three letters: emt.†  (source)
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condensation as in:  condensation of the novel

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His one-volume history of the Army Air Force in the Second World War was supposed to be a readable condensation of the twenty-seven-volume Official History of the Army Air Force in World War Two.  (source)
condensation = shortened version

meaning too rare to warrant focus

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Cosette was a condensation of the auroral light in the form of a woman.  (source)
condensation = distilled essence
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