How to Use grain alcohol in a Sentence
grain alcohol
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Have an experience close to sipping wine than downing grain alcohol.
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Jahan Marcu,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
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Most troubling, the distillery — full of highly flammable grain alcohol, in the form of grappa — was still billowing smoke.
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Esther Mobley,
SFChronicle.com,
21 Aug. 2020
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These beverages, including wood grain alcohol and some kinds of rum, are banned in either checked or carry-on luggage.
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Tanasia Kenney,
Sacbee.com,
28 Nov. 2025
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There's also the ethanol method, which extracts CBD from the plants using high-grain alcohol.
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Tehrene Firman,
Redbook,
5 June 2018
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Then pour in a bottle of Everclear, a 90-proof grain alcohol that can also be used for getting paint off a car bumper.
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Mike Postalakis,
Spin,
5 Sep. 2023
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Its distilling process requires only a neutral grain alcohol and juniper berries, and the rest of the components are up to the distiller.
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Jasmine Ting,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Jan. 2022
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Once recognized, neutral distillates or grain alcohol is then added to the recipe to synthetically formulate a wine or whiskey.
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Alan Goldfarb,
The Verge,
23 Aug. 2018
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That means hits like grain alcohol, 151-proof rum, Everclear or anything your rogue family member made in a bathtub.
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Anchorage Daily News,
19 Nov. 2019
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Bitters are a simple combination of high-proof, neutral grain alcohol infused with bittering roots or herbs, and can be pepped up with aromatic and flavored plants or spices.
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Meghan Nesmith,
Bon Appetit,
16 May 2017
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Ethanol, also known as grain alcohol, is the active ingredient in alcoholic beverages.
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Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
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In the other, Bowers drank grain alcohol in his car and lit himself on fire with a cigarette, resulting in severe burns, Porterfield said.
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Sabrina Souza,
CNN,
21 July 2023
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As one man douses its genitals with grain alcohol, another unfolds a Swiss Army knife, yanks the scrotum taut, and excises the testes in two quick cuts.
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Max Falkowitz,
Saveur,
28 Nov. 2018
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Most people drank the beer; a few not-so-subtly slugged from their own bottles of baijiu, a grain alcohol that dates back to the Ming Dynasty and burns like regret incarnate.
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Stacey Anderson,
Rolling Stone,
24 June 2021
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After a grueling workout, refuel your body and lubricate your muscles with a combo of frozen mango, trace amounts of undisclosed grain alcohol, coconut water, and chia seeds.
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Alex Beggs,
Bon Appétit,
4 Mar. 2020
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In one example of shocking behavior, my grandfather recalls men siphoning grain alcohol—intended to clean the command module—into baggies to take home and consume or sell.
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Matthew Beddingfield,
Scientific American,
27 Jan. 2022
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Earth Edith’s stone cleaner uses a natural grain alcohol base to create a natural solution to disinfect your granite countertops while still keeping them shiny.
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Nena Farrell,
Sunset Magazine,
13 Mar. 2020
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In the 1990s, for examples, some stores agreed to restrictions on Everclear grain alcohol and bottom-shelf liquors, but problems have persisted.
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Devin Kelly,
Anchorage Daily News,
18 Mar. 2018
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Pour le Monde perfumes are created exclusively from essential oils and extractions from botanicals, natural grain alcohol, and distilled water.
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Good Housekeeping,
11 Nov. 2013
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Isopropyl alcohol contains 91% alcohol content and ethanol (also known as grain alcohol) contains 95% alcohol content.
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Rachel Moskowitz,
USA TODAY,
14 May 2020
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Sure, they’re made of the same material — poison — but while resentment is concentrated, a grudge is watered down, drinkable and refreshingly effervescent, the low-calorie lager to resentment’s bootleg grain alcohol.
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Alex McElroy,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2022
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