distilled

Example Sentences

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As sunlight is absorbed, the water evaporates and is distilled into fresh water.

From Science Daily • May 31, 2026

A stage adaptation can’t duplicate the way Lumet visually distilled the rough-and-tumble New York zeitgeist of the tumultuous early 1970s.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

On the night of the encounter, he distilled his confusion and anger into a song, recording it the following morning in the small studio above his garage.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

They should use distilled water, never from the tap.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

It smelled like a concentration of growing things, green and earthy— like life distilled.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell