How to Use boil down in a Sentence

boil down

verb

• Getting ahead in your career often boils down to one thing: your reputation.
  — Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2024
• The concerns with the Fairhope proposal appeared to boil down to distrust.
  — al.com, 25 June 2019
• The city’s burgeoning craft brewery scene boils down to humbler aspirations shared by many in town.
  — Emma Simmons, al.com, 18 June 2019
• According to Rankin, a big part of the challenge boils down to still-developing brain function in teenagers.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 2 Oct. 2024
• Smith said the matter boils down to whether the parcel would be more beneficial to the town as agricultural or developed land.
  — Emily Brindley, courant.com, 25 June 2019
• At first look, that's a big number, but the individual contribution that entailed for each taxpayer boiled down to less than two dollars over one year.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 June 2019
• Every breakthrough eventually boils down to brilliant people working on fiendishly tricky problems.
  — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2024
• In the end, most discussion of reparations seems to boil down to little more than traditional tax-and-spend policies, prettified with new rationales.
  — Michael Tanner, National Review, 26 June 2019
• Of the nonpaying members, reasons for not subscribing boiled down to a simple fact: Summit features aren’t essential enough.
  — Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 24 June 2019
• Taken together, those trends boiled down to a realization: women—including young women—had assets to protect.
  — Owen Tripp, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
• But as any consumer knows, customer satisfaction mostly boils down to instant gratification.
  — Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 14 Oct. 2024
• Those options boil down to two choices: convince the court to order the youth into detention, or provide services to a child's family to allow the child to safety return home.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, Arizona Republic, 27 June 2019
• His magnetic talent could land a second star, one who could drive the Knicks toward respectability in what essentially boils down to Durant’s year.
  — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 24 June 2019
• That Democrats no longer care and Republicans suddenly do testifies to the fact that in Washington, most things always boil down to politics.
  — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 17 June 2019
• The game’s core loop boils down to beginning a seasonal chapter, exploring the area and seeing what the corruption has done, before following Neva’s desire to cleanse the world.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 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
• The complaints from people in the UK boiled down to two main points.
  — Callum Booth, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 12 Sep. 2019
• His lunch is often vegetable soup boiled down to a mush.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024