How to Use boil down in a Sentence

boil down

verb
  • The complaints from people in the UK boiled down to two main points.
    Callum Booth, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Hours and hours of grueling work were boiled down into digestible, minute-long videos, with Ando’s charisma almost equally as alluring as his talent.
    Sam Reed, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Southern chefs boil down the guts and pick the bones clean.
    Allison Glock, National Geographic, 4 June 2020
  • The head was for my grandma to boil down and use for tamales.
    Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The margin of error seems to boil down to the shape of the face mask itself.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 28 July 2020
  • Perhaps the silence on the Trump emails boils down to lessons learned.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
  • This film, for Mann, boils down to the power of chasing a high.
    Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Many of these fights seem to boil down to a question of how much to trust the reader.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The scope of those upgrades may boil down to Danny Green.
    Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The outcome might simply boil down to whether Texas can find a way to stop Jaden Ivey.
    Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Forty gallons of sap boils down to about 1 gallon of maple syrup.
    Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The remaining bones are then boiled down for about four hours.
    Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Much of it boils down to self-care, and ensuring she isn’t stretched too thin.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The rest of the lesson boiled down to this: Pay attention to nature.
    Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • However, the game could boil down to a matchup of top running backs.
    Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 12 Sep. 2019
  • His lunch is often vegetable soup boiled down to a mush.
    Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2023
  • It’s been said that all great stories boil down to one or both of the following.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Sperm whales were boiled down to make margarine, cattle feed, and glue.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • How can years of togetherness get boiled down to the same sum?
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2023
  • What his concerns boil down to is how the Empire are losing.
    Sean Collins, Dallas News, 7 May 2021
  • And these ideas boil down to what makes sports photography a piece of art too.
    Callum Sutherland, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Well, the challenge as always is to boil down a huge amount of issues into a short amount of time.
    ABC News, 19 May 2024
  • These all have their time and place, but for most anglers, the decision boils down to three main types of fly line.
    Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 6 July 2023
  • All this public-health-minded advice boils down to a game of keep away.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Even when those notes are boiled down to bullet points on note cards, Trump does not always heed them.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Most of the differences between Boys and Girls State boil down to funding.
    Shreya Prabhu, Hartford Courant, 31 July 2024
  • Ten gallons of starchy cane juice will boil down into about a gallon of syrup.
    New York Times, 8 Dec. 2020
  • One of the major factors in luggage handling seems to boil down to the airline, the report says.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Is this what the wars of dynastic succession boil down to?
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2019
  • But ultimately, this race boiled down to two men for one spot.
    Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 12 Apr. 2020

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