How to Use boil down in a Sentence

boil down

verb

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But ultimately, this race boiled down to two men for one spot.
  — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 12 Apr. 2020
• In other words, effective trash talk might boil down to skill.
  — Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2023
• The disagreement, LeCun said, boils down to your faith in people.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2023
• The issue boils down to whether there can be too much passive investing and if so, how much is too much.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2024
• The reason for the popularity of the costumes boil down to a couple of key points.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2021
• Sometimes survival boils down to having exactly the right tool at the right time.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 27 Jan. 2020
• In short, investors’ fears can be boiled down to: is all of this actually worth anything?
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
• According to the new research, selecting this boundary in any dimension boils down to a basic recipe.
  — Max Springer, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024