Example Sentences

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These hard Games had distilled to the beautiful loneliness and effortless motion of the man whose 2:01:39 in the 2018 Berlin Marathon reset the human standard for this routine act of madness.

From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2021

I thought it could pass for an experimental oak-aged gin that some hipster had distilled in his mom’s garage.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2019

By 2011, Vladic had distilled her research into a screenplay.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2018

You had distilled the reason we didn’t buy into the new cliché—so deathly, you know?

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2016

A man of few words, Mendel was even more concise in his writing: he had distilled nearly a decade’s work into forty-four spectacularly dreary pages.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee