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114 examples of Boiled in a sentence

In the end, those group exercises always boiled down to an individual score, which distorted the way that people behaved.
Had the children eaten boiled sweets?
He then goes on to say, "Having said that, would any but these boiled brains of nineteen and two-and-twenty hunt in this weather?"
One of the reasons, I think, is a sort of boiled frog phenomenon.
All of this extra water that's being boiled requires energy, and it's been calculated that in one day of extra energy use from boiling kettles is enough to light all of the streetlights in England for a night.
The user actually has to push that button to get their hot water boiled, which means, because we're all lazy, you only fill exactly what you need.
It would be another 71 years before the Endangered Species Act was passed, but really, here's its whole ethos boiled down into something like a scene you'd see in a stained glass window.
Silkworms are often boiled to death inside their cocoons, their silk unraveled and used in the textile industry.
Mostly boiled.
The newly liberated proteins bump up against their neighbors and start to form new bonds with each other, more and more as the heat increases, until finally, they're so entangled that they gel into a solid mass, a boiled egg.
First, scientists dissolve boiled egg whites in water with a chemical called urea, a small molecule that acts as a lubricant, coating the proteins' long strands and making it easier for them to glide past each other.
The Spanish set off into the jungle, but the few that return come back with stories, stories of powerful shamans, of warriors with poisoned arrows, of trees so tall they blotted out the sun, spiders that ate birds, snakes that swallowed men whole and a river that boiled.
We submitted over 300 samples of mushrooms that were boiled in hot water, and mycelium harvesting these extracellular metabolites.
It boiled down to nine candidates qualifying, and ultimately the race came down to four of us, three men and me.
Now, while in India, my parents always remind me to only drink boiled or bottled water, because unlike here in America, where I can just turn on a tap and easily get clean, potable water, in India, the water is often contaminated.
So the game is, one of these eggs is raw and one of them has been boiled.
This young guard came to my cell and offered me this small boiled egg and said, "This will give you strength to keep going."
So sort of boiled down more than is probably useful, here's how this works.
Not like hot water made cold, or cold water turned hot, but water boiled off and becoming steam.
You've probably heard the theory that our entire emotional lives can be boiled down to a handful of basic emotions.
Ollie is recovering from a broken leg in hospital, and with nothing else to do, Stan decides to visit him, and take him some boiled eggs and nuts, instead of candy.
Im a little more mature than some of the "players" in this show, but am still appalled that the whole dating game has been boiled down to a gameshow: where goofy dudes can score points on their lame ass attempts to pick up chicks.
A four-and-a-half-hour O'Neill play gets boiled down to a little under two, and much of that running time is devoted to actors with frozen expressions on their faces as they read their characters' thoughts in voice-over.
Or maybe you like these blonde, 'ow you say?, bombshells, who are all qualified in aerobics and naked petanques, who decorate my long, maroon velvety sofa like so many soft boiled larks on a plate of pan fried foie gras and figs.
The seven bowls, seven viles and seven trumpets of judgements are boiled down to a 15 second news cast of the sea changing it's structure.
Although John Woo's hard Boiled is my number 1 favorite movie.
Crime Wave is really well paced hard boiled Noir and at a paltry 73 minutes it passes all too quickly, it also has the distinction of being a rather important influence on Kubrick's The Killing which has a similar look and also most of the same cast.
Simply one of the best hard boiled noir films I have seen.
One of the actors is found boiled to death in a swimming pool (apparently, this wasn't an accident).
If you want a good action movie I suggest Hard Boiled, or something that you have read about and sounds good.
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