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
• 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
• So, the debate seems to boil down to this: is a half a loaf better than none?
  — Barbara Peterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Nov. 2018
• The reason why brown sugar clumps up boils down to how it’s made.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2024
• 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 IoN's fun really boils down to tweaks and polish.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 16 July 2018
• 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
• Many of the risks lurking in China boil down to two problems.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 13 June 2018
• Much of the tension surrounding the wolf plan boils down to when wolves can be killed, why and by whom.
  — oregonlive.com, 7 June 2019
• The crux of the argument boiled down to this: What is the purpose of Medicaid?
  — Rachel Bluth, Washington Post, 15 June 2018
• 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
• To avoid fraudster, the best advice boils down to this: Pay inside.
  — Joshua Hafner, ajc, 3 July 2018
• 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
• Unintentional shootings boil down to the instrument: the gun.
  — John Diedrich, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
• Environmental impacts of bitcoin mining boil down largely to the energy source used.
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Dec 2024