diluted

How To Use diluted In A Sentence

• Hence it is best when it can be recently taken from a patient in the disease; or otherwise it may be diluted with part of a drop of warm water, since its fluidity is likely to occasion its immediate absorption; and the wound should be made as small and superficial as possible, as otherwise ulcers have been supposed sometimes to ensue with subaxillary abscesses. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
• The circulating nurse instills tetracaine hydrochloride drops to decrease the burning sensation of the diluted povidone-iodine solution.
• Existing shareholders are less diluted. Times, Sunday Times
• A team of chemists found that when certain substances are diluted in water, the molecules clump together instead of getting further apart, as common sense would suggest.
• He fixed her with a mildly reproving glance which diluted quickly into a fond grin.
• It can be sprayed directly onto a surface for extreme malodors, or diluted with water and sprayed.
• The amethyst is a brilliant transparent stone of a purple colour resembling that of diluted wine and varying in shade from the violet purple to rose. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
• In 1740, British Admiral Vernon (whose nickname was ‘Old Grogram’ for the cloak of grogram which he wore) ordered that the sailors’ daily ration of rum be diluted with water.
• Her blood has diluted and cooled itself to a crystalline, life-giving wine. A MEANS TO EVIL
• Mr Preston favours sheep droppings matured in a barrel and diluted to the colour of weak tea!