How to Use vat in a Sentence

vat

noun
  • Giant vats of black beans for the next day steamed on a counter.
    Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
  • Sometimes the best culture-crit is steeped in a vat of acid.
    Longreads, 7 Apr. 2023
  • This is a blend of grenache noir and syrah, aged in concrete vats for six months.
    Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
  • And Mária put giant vats of Glauber salts near that warm air.
    Johanna Mayer, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2023
  • That’s the same time that the printout from Plant 6 suggests David went into the vat.
    cincinnati.com, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Al’s slow-cooks its beef for nearly four hours in a vat of spices and its own juices.
    Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu, Bon Appétit, 16 June 2023
  • Moments later, the vat falls over as the dog tries to escape.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Cheese curds by definition, the best cheese curd is a fresh curd right out of the vat.
    Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2023
  • The concussion threw him back 10 yards in the air and into a vat of molasses.
    USA Today, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The glands were then placed into a vat of salt water and heated for 10 days.
    Mark Woolmer, National Geographic, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The recipes: Make a vat of this chile- and garlic-packed Cuban sauce and put it on just about everything.
    Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Siedell Backyard La Lucé stands in front of a long, snaking pipe that leads to a large wooden vat.
    Rob Long, National Review, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Tawny Ports are wines that have been aged in either vats or barrels.
    Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 10 Dec. 2023
  • My favorite curd is not flavored, about 10 minutes right out of the vat.
    Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The blast blew a vat from the building 30 feet into a parking lot, Bradbury said.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 4 May 2023
  • Many, if not most, cafes have a vat in their kitchens, and dinky jars of less than one ounce dot airport lounges across the country.
    Natasha Frost Abigail Varney, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • At least five wine vats and one wine press are scattered among its crumbling walls.
    Yadid Levy, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Harder cheeses have the whey drained out of the cheese vat before the curds are packed into cheese forms for pressing.
    Audrey Bruno, SELF, 11 June 2019
  • The fish fry features fish dredged in cornmeal, flour and spices and then cooked in vats of hot oil and served on a slice of white bread with hot sauce.
    Grace Segers, CBS News, 22 June 2019
  • Ana Mabel was on the outskirts of the crowd, mixing peanuts and caramelized sugar in a metal vat.
    New York Times, 6 Aug. 2022
  • To prepare the steaming vat of caldo de pollo, someone has to tend the fire.
    Michelle García, Bon Appétit, 13 Feb. 2020
  • What marbled the meat had not come from a butchered pig but a living hog whose fat cells had been sampled and grown in a vat.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Can Gary Barta come out to play and not be run over by a Rumpke truck or drowned in a vat of Hudepohl wort?
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 25 Nov. 2021
  • In the color room, exposed pipes line the walls and connect to massive metal vats.
    Paige Stables, Allure, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Fires would have to be tended and large vats were stirred with long wooden paddles for eight hours or more.
    oregonlive, 24 Oct. 2019
  • To make a Prince Rupert's Drop, a glass handler lets molten glass drip and fall into a vat of water.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 28 Nov. 2020
  • Keep a vat of it next to your bed, have a tube in your purse, keep samples in every drawer in your apartment.
    Gigi Engle, Glamour, 4 Apr. 2019
  • This crumbling vat, with squares aligned back to back, was built to process the plant when the demand for indigo dye was at its height.
    Latria Graham, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
  • If the giant vats of bubbling caldo de res don’t impress you, the indoor spit just might.
    Melissa Clark, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • These printers have a vat of resin with a window at the bottom, and on the other side of the window is a DLP projector.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2020

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