liquefying
- present participle of liquefy.
Example Sentences
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As a former undertaker, Morton-Hayward knew the brain is perhaps the softest of the body’s soft tissues: It tends to decay quickly after death, liquefying and leaving only the skull behind.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 19, 2024
People had been liquefying excess Gruyére in a bath of oxidized wine and mopping it up with day-old bread in the Alps for centuries, but the practice had never jumped the pond.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2023
Theoretically, transporting gas by pipelines would be easier than liquefying natural gas for export before converting it back into gas at its destination.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
Constructed in 1951 and 1968, respectively, the lower and upper dams are crumbling, and the soil underneath is at risk of liquefying.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2019
“Maybe we can save some of it,” he says as he finally grasps the Comet can and pulls it out of the water upside down, dumping even more liquefying powder into the tub.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
