vat
Example Sentences
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The justices don’t care what you’re doing out there on the plaza; they are just brains in a vat.
From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026
The real-estate investor took off her shoes, sanitized her feet and waded into a giant vat filled to the brim with juicy grapes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025
Now behind the counter where there used to be a vat of loose dirty potatoes sits a neat row of greeting cards, wrapping paper and helium balloons.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2024
So Barba and Lerew stepped to the vat and uncovered it, revealing a glutinous stew of rags and vaseline, once integral to the tattoo process; the stew’s age and precise contents are uncertain.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2024
She twisted in the vat, the rough pottery scratching her cheek, but she was rewarded by a good-sized crack at eye level.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.