marinates
- present tense form of marinate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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He steps away to rest his tired back as the sickening result marinates.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2023
A trained writer, meanwhile, marinates in speech from people who weren’t taught the nuances of lay vs. lie, or pedagogically hassled out of extraneous likes.
From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2022
Thomas Kail compared Mr. Rockwell to a jazz musician, who only makes surprising riffs after “he takes every scene and examines it and scrutinizes it and marinates in it.”
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2019
Tandia, aided by just one other chef, makes everything herself in the tiny kitchen, and when something’s out for the day—like Calypso jerk-chicken wings with pineapple relish, which she marinates each morning—it’s out.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 19, 2018
Now behold water-spouts vomiting as they rush over the pavements, and rubbish marinates in puddles that fill the holes scooped out of the macadam.
From Against the Grain by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)
