How to Use distill in a Sentence

distill

verb

• They distill the whiskey from malted barley.
• He has perfectly distilled the meaning of the holiday into a poem.
• Lydia’s speech distills what is so great about Latinx shows about mom-dom.
  — refinery29.com, 11 May 2018
• Here are the beautiful brass tanks used to distill the world- famous drink.
  — Fox News, 22 May 2018
• Yet how to distill his disgust and concern in a single image?
  — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 29 June 2024
• And this notion accords with how many American choose to distill King, considering him through a prism of hope.
  — Simon Balto, Time, 5 Apr. 2018
• No word—no matter how descriptive—could ever distill all the nuance and complexity that is a single human being.
  — Orrin Hatch, WSJ, 18 May 2018
• The single franchise that kind of distills everything about being a modern fan in the NBA right now is the Bucks.
  — SI.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• To have a sense of what’s interesting, to talk to the right people, to take it all and distill it into 8,000 words that are mostly written on the fly?
  — Tim Rohan, SI.com, 29 May 2018
• Laughing Monk makes Belgian-style beer, and Seven Stills makes craft beer and distills seven varieties of whiskey.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2018
• The Bronfman dynasty understood how to distill alcohol, but not entertainment.
  — Peter Bart, Deadline, 13 June 2024
• Mendoza said police seized weapons, equipment to distill alcohol, marijuana plants and other drugs from a section that houses the most dangerous criminals.
  — Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2018
• The two import countless pounds of them from Kalusevic’s native Serbia and distill them into a white brandy bottled as Kinsman Rakia.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 8 Mar. 2018
• Cities that feel — to distill it to a single word — healthy.
  — Craig Mod, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2023
• That’s the point of the 911 GT3: to distill Porsche’s unmistakable sports car to its essence.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2022
• In art, late styles tend to distill all that came before.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• His ability to distill melodies to their essence works the same way.
  — Nathan Carson | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 18 Feb. 2022
• Anyway, here’s my best attempt to distill the year that was.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
• This back-and-forth seemed to distill the sick logic of the Weinstein affair.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2020
• To see her distill it down to these minute little moments was fun.
  — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 28 May 2021
• Count on us to distill all of the action into tidy, digestible news items that keep you up to date.
  — Tim Rohan, SI.com, 1 Sep. 2019
• Before the game, Nuggets coach Michael Malone tried to distill what has been going on.
  — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 9 Dec. 2019
• Chita, set against the backdrop of the Aichi Prefecture’s coast, is the only to distill grain whiskies.
  — Hannah Lott-Schwartz, Fortune, 16 June 2019
• The goal was not only to distill but to also entertain and serve.
  — Kara Carlson, Dallas News, 12 Aug. 2019
• For years, the younger Van Winkle struggled to make ends meet and find places to distill and distribute his whiskey.
  — Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online, 1 May 2021
• The water used to proof and distill the vodka comes from springs fueled by snow and rainwater.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 19 Jan. 2023
• Kim's meeting with the Uganda president isn't the first time that KKW has had to distill her life's work into the barest of facts.
  — Andrea Park, Teen Vogue, 16 Oct. 2018
• For every frustration in Javed’s life, there is a verse that distills it.
  — J.t., The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• Then distill those business concepts down to the most basic idea.
  — Chris Venezia, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• It’s hard to distill all the choices of concerts in Connecticut.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 6 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2024