How to Use condense in a Sentence

condense

verb
  • Moisture in the air condenses to form tiny drops of water.
  • Condense the milk by cooking it slowly.
  • The cooler temperatures cause the gas to condense into a liquid.
  • The information is collected and then passed on to the CEO in condensed form.
  • Steam creates vapors that condense at each stage, some of which are removed.
    Ross McCammon, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2019
  • The team then votes and condenses the list to five additional countries.
    Rachel King, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2019
  • This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and space.
    Ezra Marcus, Town & Country, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Interviews are conducted by email, text and phone, then condensed and edited.
    New York Times, 5 Sep. 2019
  • This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The conversation that follows has been edited and condensed.
    Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Interviews were edited and condensed for length and clarity.
    Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 1 Nov. 2024
  • This interview has been edited and condensed from two conversations.
    David Marchese, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
  • This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and concision.
    Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 5 Nov. 2024
  • There are 259 bus routes this year after the school system condensed one route from the previous year, Hardesty said.
    Catalina Righter, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 2 Sep. 2019
  • The conversation has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.
    Wired, 12 Sep. 2019
  • But in the film, this passage is not only condensed but mostly stripped of its nihilist overtones, and reduced to teenage hijinks and rote paternal conflict.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The following conversation has been condensed and edited.
    Jacob Feldman, SI.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Editor’s note: This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.
    Seamus Kirst, Teen Vogue, 6 Sep. 2019
  • From our American history classes to the world of arts and entertainment, we are taught a version of black history that has been condensed and whitewashed.
    Anjana Pawa, Teen Vogue, 10 Sep. 2019
  • But now, Gemini will condense the hundreds of millions of reviews on Google Maps into short, easy-to-read summaries of the places in question.
    Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Because of Monday night’s game against Notre Dame, the Cardinals are now forced to condense their schedule weekly schedule.
    Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Bean to Bar Chocolate Making 201 goes in depth, condensing a week’s worth of work in making a batch of chocolate into four hours.
    Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2019
  • In the oven’s high heat, the cubes condense and turn golden, and caramelize at their edges.
    Melissa Clark, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • In recent years, though, the Gulf Coast route has been condensed.
    John Sharp | , al, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The moisture needs something to condense on – like the water that forms on the side of a cold glass on a hot day.
    Cnn Com Wire Service, Orange County Register, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The effects also have caused the shop owners to condense their stock, which is not all bad, Starr told The Aegis.
    Callan Tansill-Suddath, baltimoresun.com, 26 Nov. 2021
  • What were the hardest parts of the stage musical to condense or cut from the screenplay?
    Marcus Jones, EW.com, 15 June 2021
  • The air can then condense and turn into liquid, which falls as rain.
    Washington Post, 21 July 2021
  • Rock, metal and ice condense out of the disk to form planetary seeds.
    Meredith A. MacGregor, Scientific American, 19 May 2020
  • So the oxygen in the air and also the nitrogen can condense onto the surface.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022

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