How to Use denature in a Sentence

denature

verb
  • As the lime juice diffuses into the fish, its low pH will cause the proteins in the fish to denature and form protein networks.
    Liz Roth-Johnson, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2013
  • The combined action of heat and acid helps some of the milk proteins to denature and coagulate to form a large white mass of cheese curds.
    Nik Sharma, SFChronicle.com, 9 July 2020
  • The artist Leah Wulfman is working on the videos, abstracting them and denaturing them a bit.
    New York Times, 1 Apr. 2020
  • To fix that, some cooks boil them before roasting, which completely denatures the meat.
    Julia Moskin, New York Times, 9 July 2018
  • The alcohol acts as what’s called a denaturing agent, versus soap, which acts as a detergent.
    Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 24 Apr. 2020
  • When whisked vigorously, the proteins in egg whites denature and form new bonds, creating a tight network where air is trapped.
    Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 6 May 2021
  • Vinegar lowers to pH, which allows the proteins to denature more quickly and results in thinner threads.
    Lucas Sin, Bon Appétit, 15 May 2020
  • The pandemic has offered companies a boon — the opportunity to denature the old way of work and create new patterns and habits.
    Arthi Rabikrisson, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
  • According to Kong, nano-diamonds can be treated to carry a small electrical charge which, when in contact with a virus, denatures the cell membrane and kills the virus on contact.
    Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2020
  • An arrest report cited by the station says the woman filled a mason jar with fuel, denatured alcohol and nails.
    Fox News, 15 Jan. 2020
  • By using delays and adding sine tones, the composer denatured the original recordings.
    Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Feb. 2018
  • One of their ingredients was denatured ethyl alcohol, which is very common in perfumes.
    Yvette D'entremont, SELF, 13 Oct. 2017
  • This is an album that takes familiar hip-hop starting points and denatures them, resulting in a compelling collage that feels structurally untethered to hip-hop then or now.
    Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The center of the island was cruelly denatured by the heavy hand of the Baron Georges Haussmann, a 19th-century urban planner who favoured efficiency over antiquity.
    Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
  • Unlike high-temperature cooking methods, cell walls don’t burst and proteins don’t denature.
    Wes Siler, Outside Online, 18 Jan. 2016
  • But go back to the banks, and ask whether the real problem is that a decade of extraordinary monetary maneuvers has denatured Italy’s financial institutions.
    Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2019
  • What runs in The New York Times isn’t unreal, but much of it is filtered through a narrative so unbending that the irregular components of reality emerge as processed and denatured as loaves of bread on a factory line.
    Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 13 Jan. 2017
  • Mechanical stress from rigorously beating the egg whites causes the egg white proteins to denature, unfold from their natural structure.
    Alice Chi Phung, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2016
  • Yet filmmakers tend to denature archival material, strip it of its physical identity and its genetic matter.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2022
  • That's because many products out there contain common irritants such as fragrances, denatured alcohol, coloring pigments, and more.
    Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 30 Sep. 2019
  • As the bottle scavenger hunt was under way, Milam continued a delicate volley of locking up machine time for production and ensuring the company had enough of the liquid assets of denatured alcohol and essential oils.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN, 10 Apr. 2020

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