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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.
- It's going to boil down to keeping your pecker up, looking on the best side of things.
- I helped for a day in a sugarbush collecting sap and watching it boil down. Archive 2005-10-01
- But genuine co-operation between colonies seems always to boil down to pure parasitism.
- All such arguments boil down to saying that half a loaf is the same as no bread. The Lion and the Unicorn
- Going madly off into a fading teevee breakdown, a degenerating of colors to boil down to utter depressing greys, greys of all shades, deepening into the blankest of the most depressing color there is, that which is totally empty of color, the color of tears. From the Shambles
- The explanation for varied appreciation rates may boil down to something as intangible as popularity.
- It's not beyond people to conduct elaborate online hoaxes for any number of reasons that all really boil down to a means of getting attention.
- Spinach tends to boil down a lot.
- The reasons usually just boil down to the gavage, which is the force feeding. Dan Barber's foie gras parable
