Sentence examples for is being boiled from inspiring English sources

"If a pot is being boiled, at least it's an intricately-decorated pot on a spectacular fire".

The optimal time to visit a sugar shack is in late winter when the syrup is being boiled, but many shacks offer meals year round.

Which means an awful lot of water is being boiled daily — only a portion of which is actually necessary, given most people aren't fastidious enough to boil only the quantity of liquid they actually need to fill their cup or teapot.

It's a falsehood that we have contend with everyday, whether we are staring down the barrel of a police officer's gun or our life is being boiled down to a handful of misbegotten transgressions in a New York Post column.

As the mixture bubbles, the alcohol is being boiled off so the end result will be a bit stronger than it was in the bottle, and it will last longer on skin.

It was being boiled in the basement of the store.

In one room, huge casseroles filled with fully decomposed remains from the nearby woods are being boiled clean in detergent.

In The Lepers, an orderly is described as being trapped "in a terrible kettle where he himself was being boiled away".

Unless those feathers are being boiled for soup by peasants while the leaders grow fat on the proceeds of an effectively enslaved population, yes, yes it is.

Instead he offered a curiously gruesome analogy: "I kind of slowly do it, like a frog that you stick in cold water and slowly turn up the heat so it never knows it's being boiled alive".

Soon after the monks landed, the barley/oat strong ales were being boiled (distilled) in crude pot stills, thereby generating high-alcohol grain spirits that bore no resemblance whatsoever to what we know today as Scotch whisky.