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

Last Updated: 24 Sep 2024