boil away
(adverb) to cause (liquid) to evaporate completely by boiling or (of liquid) to evaporate completely
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How to use boil away in a sentence
So he shut his lips firmly and let the squire and the colonel boil away as best they might between themselves.
The Rival Campers | Ruel Perley SmithIf all the water were allowed to boil away, a layer of mud or of other impurities would be found at the bottom of the vessel.
General Science | Bertha M. ClarkNow add sufficient water to enable you to boil them, and let the water boil away till very little is left.
Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery | A. G. PayneTruth, law, and language fairly boil away from them at the least touch of novel fact.
Pragmatism | William JamesAdd more water should it boil away or the soup get too thick.
Margaret Brown's French Cookery Book | Margaret Brown
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