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How to use the word boiled in a Sentence?

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They are reading the K-12 version of critical race theory, which is boiled down to this oppressor or oppressed talk… It is a dwindled down teaching of the theory. It is absolutely there, it’s not just in schools.

Quisha King

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As a weight loss coach for women, I recommend that my clients have a hard-boiled egg or a handful of almonds before a workout, even if it is within only 30 minutes of exercising, so that they have enough energy to complete their workout.

Stephanie Mansour

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It was like no one really understood the pain and the challenges I was going through, it got worse and worse and worse and worse till it all boiled over... I remember in the morning, just going through the motions, kind of being in a daze, having things to do, but not really having any motivation or any care to really get anything done. Read More.

Raven Saunders

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It just kind of boiled over, that was unprofessional of me to do that there at the end, so I apologize to everyone that saw that. Just heat of the moment.

Carter Hart

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We hung him out to dry, it just kind of boiled over.

Kevin Hayes

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We've just been surviving on boiled rice for almost seven days now.

Anamika Das

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

People need help. My children eat boiled banana skins, shredded like meat, what a joy to get help to my children. An even greater joy would be to get rid of Maduro.

Venezuelan Yesica Leonett

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It just came over and ate the farm, boiled the water out of the ponds.

Kevin Hopkins

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We’ve shown Washington’s spending problem can’t be boiled down to a lack of will. It’s a problem of structure and process -- and everyone knows the process of government funding in Washington is broken, i’m extremely disappointed our Democrat members didn’t vote in line with their newfound concern about deficits, but this is not the only battle line in the fight to fix our spending problem.

Kevin McCarthy

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It boiled down to saving people's lives and saving money.

Elijah Cummings

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Conjugal government requires its treatises. A young woman setting out in life lacks a printed guide. Her cookery-book, however, may afford some useful hints till one be actually directed to the important subject just mentioned. Many well-known receipts are equally available for a batterie de cuisine or du cœur. Your roasted husband is subdued by the fire of fierce words and fiercer looks — your broiled husband, under the pepper and salt of taunt and innuendo — your stewed husband, under the constant application of petty vexations — your boiled husband dissolves under the watery influences — while your confectionized husband goes through a course of the blanc mange of flattery, or the preserves and sweets of caresses and smiles.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

I turned in my chair and it was right there in front of me. The lyrics just poured out because all it boiled down to was describing the picture.

Guy Clark

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Matooke or banana mingled and wrapped in banana leaves, cooked very well and served with boiled beef, cooked in banana leaves, known as luwombo, is the best food representing my country, Uganda.

Ssempijja William via Facebook

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In Malaysia, the best is nasi lemak, rice cooked with coconut milk accompanied with red hot spicy sauce and fried anchovies with peanuts and cucumber and boiled eggs. It is usually for breakfast. A complete meal.

Gladys Fernandez

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Any red-blooded American’s blood would have boiled at the sight of what she wrote, i let my anger get the best of me.

Harry Vincent

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Only Boiled Seeds are afraid of failure.

Abhishek Shukla

added by Author Abhishek Shukla
9 years ago

Have an apple with peanut butter, a hard-boiled egg, some Greek yogurt—something that’s low in simple sugars that will help you feel full until your next meal.

Laila Tabatabai

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP.

Julie Burchill

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

Julie Burchill

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.

Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason

added by anonymous
13 years ago

'Out upon merry Christmas What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer... If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should'

Charles Dickens

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg.

Anonymous

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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