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

August smiled and dunked a wooden drizzle into the vat of honey, which sat on the counter by the toaster oven.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd