How to Use boil down in a Sentence

boil down

verb
  • A lot of it boils down to demand.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
  • This week boils down to a simple choice.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2025
  • What all this boils down to are trucks that are very un-truck-like.
    — David Szondy june 03, New Atlas, 3 June 2026
  • The head was for my grandma to boil down and use for tamales.
    — Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2020
  • The head was for my grandma to boil down and use for tamales.
    — Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2020
  • In Phoenix, this boils down to water.
    — Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • A lot of it boils down to the game’s new aesthetic.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Then they were asked to boil down the story down to a slogan.
    — Carla Power, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The agreement boils down to a branding deal.
    — Matt Moret, New York Times, 28 May 2026
  • In many ways, the backlash boils down to a trust problem.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The remaining bones are then boiled down for about four hours.
    — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The trend, in part, boils down to supply and demand.
    — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • It can be boiled down to the mantra that the ends justify the means.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2018
  • As a result, the race may boil down to style more than substance.
    — Time, 31 May 2018
  • The reason why brown sugar clumps up boils down to how it’s made.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Sperm whales were boiled down to make margarine, cattle feed, and glue.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • This boils down to Lyson not knowing how much time was left in the round.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • Many of the calls in question boil down to a couple of tenths of an inch.
    — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Forty gallons of sap boils down to about 1 gallon of maple syrup.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Much of it boils down to self-care, and ensuring she isn’t stretched too thin.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Many of these fights seem to boil down to a question of how much to trust the reader.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The answer boils down to how the spinning dead star dragged space and time in its wake.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
  • As if womanhood can be boiled down to a lab result.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The two sides boil down to Artie T against his three sisters.
    — Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
  • How can years of togetherness get boiled down to the same sum?
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2023
  • But the rewards are great and boil down to camaraderie and fun.
    — Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
  • In practice, this has boiled down to thinking that if prices don’t go up no harm is done.
    — The Economist, 20 Jan. 2018
  • The last week of the campaign now boils down to one, burning issue.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • This film, for Mann, boils down to the power of chasing a high.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
  • However, the game could boil down to a matchup of top running backs.
    — Ben Thomas | [email protected], al, 12 Sep. 2019

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