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press from a plastic
press a record -
obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action
Italians express coffee rather than filter it -
extinguish by crushing
stub out your cigar
How To Use press out In A Sentence
- Strain the cucumber through a fine mesh and press out the liquid. Times, Sunday Times
- Just cut a stick of feta, cover it in spinach (I thawed whole leaf spinach from my freezer – if you use fresh parboil them so they wilt and press out the water), then roll the feta-spinach roll up in the dough triangle. Bento #223 « Were rabbits
- Also, science press releases are "embargoed" - employees of major press outlets get to see them first, bloggers have to wait. RealClimate
- Two letters to the editor express outrage over the (now presumably secret) plans to redevelop the Castle Lane area.
- Indeed, critical readers might suspect that the vanity press outlet was the only way these articles could get into print.
- Caravaggio's potent illusionism is challenged by the astonishing construction of the painting, a slow swirl of forms that press outward from the composition's depths, a loop of light against bottomless darkness described by Saul's open arms and the horse's curved back, blocked by the "fence" of legs across the center of the picture, where human and equine limbs interlace with thundering intensity. A Transfiguring Moment
- Large rotary paddles crush the grapes and press out the juice, which flows to a gathering tank. THREE IN ONE
- Drain in a colander and press out the moisture with a spoon, roughly chop and stir in the still-warm drained aubergines.
- Saunder's lawyer made a brief statement to the press outside the court.
- At this debate, the press outnumbers the attendants 4 to 1.