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cook until very little liquid is left
The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time -
be cooked until very little liquid is left
The sauce should reduce to one cup -
be the essential element
The proposal boils down to a compromise
How To Use boil down In A Sentence
- The real issue, they predict, will boil down to fairness and simple human dignity.
- The reasons for this are varied but they boil down to an essential confluence of two factors: it matters and it's uncertain. Christianity Today
- It has been a sorry period for Swindon's schools, and the reasons behind the town's bad marks are difficult to boil down.
- The explanation for varied appreciation rates may boil down to something as intangible as popularity.
- Molasses is a byproduct of the sugar refining process, it is the thick syrup you get when you boil down the sugar cane juices to extract sugar.
- Even the furloughed convicts who boil down pine trees into turpentine in my vast forest have been receiving an extra pullet or two in their monthly rations.
- If so, the decision for Aer Lingus is likely to boil down to which offer most suits its technical requirements.
- The issues boil down to money and prestige.
- Boil down the soup until it gets thicker. I don't like thin soup.
- This is not the place to delve into the detail of EMU's flaws, but they boil down to the difficulties of squeezing an array of disparate economies into a single monetary straitjacket.
