How to Use vat in a Sentence

vat

noun
  • Instead my body felt like a vat of acid.
    — Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 13 Mar. 2026
  • That’s what was cooking in the vats.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • Giant vats of black beans for the next day steamed on a counter.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
  • This is a blend of grenache noir and syrah, aged in concrete vats for six months.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The whole thing seems off, like an open vat of chicken salad.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 27 May 2026
  • Jasmine is placed into a vat and steeped overnight, like tea.
    — Cecilia Vega, CBS News, 3 May 2026
  • Al’s slow-cooks its beef for nearly four hours in a vat of spices and its own juices.
    — Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu, Bon Appétit, 16 June 2023
  • At least five wine vats and one wine press are scattered among its crumbling walls.
    — Yadid Levy, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2020
  • To fill the cracks in all the sculptures, the artist had melted vats of beeswax.
    — Douglas Stuart, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
  • And Mária put giant vats of Glauber salts near that warm air.
    — Johanna Mayer, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2023
  • It’s built like a tank, and the heated vat means cold garage prints aren’t a problem.
    — PC Magazine, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Moments later, the vat falls over as the dog tries to escape.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Tawny Ports are wines that have been aged in either vats or barrels.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Cheese curds by definition, the best cheese curd is a fresh curd right out of the vat.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2023
  • Fires would have to be tended and large vats were stirred with long wooden paddles for eight hours or more.
    — oregonlive, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Crate after crate of jasmine is layered into this vat and steeped overnight like tea.
    — Cecilia Vega, CBS News, 3 May 2026
  • The glands were then placed into a vat of salt water and heated for 10 days.
    — Mark Woolmer, National Geographic, 24 Sep. 2020
  • My favorite curd is not flavored, about 10 minutes right out of the vat.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Many, if not most, cafes have a vat in their kitchens, and dinky jars of less than one ounce dot airport lounges across the country.
    — Natasha Frost Abigail Varney, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • But Don ignores him, telling his team to crack open the vats and allow the valuable mash to drain.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Nov. 2025
  • To prepare the steaming vat of caldo de pollo, someone has to tend the fire.
    — Michelle García, Bon Appétit, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Harder cheeses have the whey drained out of the cheese vat before the curds are packed into cheese forms for pressing.
    — Audrey Bruno, SELF, 11 June 2019
  • The character seems not so much drawn from experience as plucked from a vat of pulp cliché.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 May 2026
  • Keep a vat of it next to your bed, have a tube in your purse, keep samples in every drawer in your apartment.
    — Gigi Engle, Glamour, 4 Apr. 2019
  • Skipping meat is hardly a hardship when there is a vat of creamy mac and cheese taking center stage.
    — Katie Workman, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2020
  • If the giant vats of bubbling caldo de res don’t impress you, the indoor spit just might.
    — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The concussion threw him back 10 yards in the air and into a vat of molasses.
    — USA Today, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Signs educate guests on the process of how the agave is fermented with yeast in large tanks and wooden vats.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The components used for the gel are vacuumed into a silver vat and mixed for five hours.
    — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2020
  • The garnacha stays in concrete egg, macabeu in big Stockinger oak vats and chardonnay in small barrels.
    — Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025

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