Sample Sentences for
distill
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distill as in:  distill the whisky

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The ship distills fresh water from salt water.
distills = separates
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    It is illegal and dangerous to distill whisky without a license.
    distill = make
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    The harmattan was in the air and seemed to distill a hazy feeling of sleep on the world.  (source)
    distill = concentrate (make more powerful)
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    But now-I want you to feel old, I want a little of my cowardice to be distilled in you tonight.  (source)
    distilled = concentrated
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    I poured the distilled water and added the drops from the base formula, then passed the tiny glass bottle through the ring made by my thumb and index fingers, counting to fifty or a hundred, then moving on to the next.  (source)
    distilled = purified
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    I give him a single-page document with a distillation of what he should know for his upcoming test.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    The rafts hadn't been equipped with water desalinizing or distilling materials, nor did they have containers in which to catch rain.  (source)
    distilling = purifying
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    Now, as he stood drinking at the plateau pool, she felt her fury not lessen but distill.†  (source)
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    Well, there may be a poison that distills itself out of good things.  (source)
    distills = extracts in concentrated form
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    The rooted fibers rose, and from the wound Black bloody drops distill'd upon the ground.†  (source)
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    —Take the flowers of lilly of the valley and distil them in sack, and drink a spooneful or two as there is occasion.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: Distil is the British spelling. Americans spell it distill.
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    The distillers put the blades in for an extra kick.†  (source)
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    The beautiful in this world is all from his hand declaring the perfection of taste; he is the author of all form; he clothes the lily, he colors the rose, he distils the dew-drop, he makes the music of nature; in a word, he organized us for this life, and imposed its conditions; and they are such guaranty to me that, trustful as a little child, I leave to him the organization of my Soul, and every arrangement for the life after death.†  (source)
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    This was said in jest; but if the speaker could have seen the evil leer with which the Jew bit his pale lip as he turned round to the cupboard, he might have thought the caution not wholly unnecessary, or the wish (at all events) to improve upon the distiller's ingenuity not very far from the old gentleman's merry heart.†  (source)
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distill as in:  distill the central idea

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Distill the essential ideas to fit on a single page.
distill = extract (separate)
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    If you had to distill your life experience into one lesson to share, what would it be?
    distill = summarize the essence
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    He distilled this for me to mean that Judge Taylor might look lazy and operate in his sleep, but he was seldom reversed, and that was the proof of the pudding.  (source)
    distilled = extracted the essential idea
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    These would be distilled into an 84-count indictment.  (source)
    distilled = extracted and concentrated
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    Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made: And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall vade, my verse distills—your truth.  (source)
    distills = concentrates the essential
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    The bathroom was plastered in girlie pinups, a Sistine Chapel of pornography. Phil gaped at it, marveling at the distillation of frustrated flyboy libido that had inspired it.  (source)
    distillation = concentration
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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