marinate

Example Sentences

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"Sometimes a song needs to marinate for a year, six months, it can take some time," she says.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2025

It takes a little over an hour for “Nobu” to marinate long enough to approach a point of complexity, not exactly bitter but no longer cloyingly sweet.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2025

I will typically use it to marinate flank steak, but recently I used it with my grilled chicken and stone fruit chutney, and it reminded me how this sauce really does go with everything.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2024

Leave some for the fruit to continue to marinate.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2023

I was so good at denying myself this, the simple pleasure of even a secret crush, that the thoughts were never allowed to marinate in my mind.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi