distill
verb (used with object)
to subject to a process of vaporization and subsequent condensation, as for purification or concentration.
are distilling
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present progressiveof distill.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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As the economist John Maynard Keynes said, “Mad men in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.”
From Salon ● May 6, 2017
“Pastured dairies are distilling the local landscape into the cheese,” she says.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2015
As Keynes once put it, “Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2012
"Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back," John Maynard Keynes observed in 1936.
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2011
The Scotch companies are distilling about two million tons of shale per annum, this quantity producing about sixty million gallons of crude oil, and giving employment to over 10,000 hands.
From Coal and What We Get from It by Raphael Meldola
