maceration

Example Sentences

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It’s a culinary technique — a savory maceration, where the tomatoes release their juices, mingling with basil and salt, becoming something electric.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2025

The "maceration" of the sewage that was being pumped out along the outfall pipe was, they said, not treatment, and it would be washed back in to Scarborough's bays.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2022

They leach into the wine during pressing, maceration and fermentation of the juice.

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2021

Andy, Haideh and Mary, friends, led the charge sorting out the leaves and twigs, as we placed the grapes on a conveyor belt, before they moved into the maceration process.

From New York Times • May 7, 2015

Objects much too big for the gizzard are often gulped down, and probably receive a preliminary softening and maceration in the crop.

From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Slack, Henry J.