Examples of vat in a Sentence
Tony Sachs, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2024
Akihiro Kobayashi, manager of the Nomura Mekki Fukuyama factory, said a sheet covering the chemical vat was found partially torn when employees returned to work after the weekend.
—Dhruv Tikekar, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
The 11-foot-tall vat of metal plating solution contained hexavalent chromium, according to Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper.
—Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
Recently, a team of professional archaeologists working for Elizabeth Anderson Comer investigated the tannery site at the Union Mills Homestead hoping to find where the tanning vats were located in an area with no visible clues.
—Mary Ann Ashcraft, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2024
There was the spicy incident when border agents found nearly 2 tons of methamphetamine and cocaine — valued at $10.4 million — buried within dozens of vats of jalapeño paste in December.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
And fried in a vat full of gluten. Side salad, no croutons, and pray that the dressing doesn’t contain malt flavoring, malt vinegar, or soy sauce.
—Emily Menez, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2024
Although the true cause of the hawk’s situation is uncertain, the center said the bird may have been hunting rodents near an open vat of cooking oil near a restaurant — which can attract rats and mice — and ended up in the oil instead.
—Makiya Seminera, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
This mezcal is fermented in open-air wooden vats and utilizes wild yeasts.
—Erik Ofgang, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
Mark Littler, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
Lastly, the whiskeys were vatted together and bottled at cask strength of 113.8 proof with no chill filtration.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 14 Jan. 2024
Black Art 11 is a 24-year-old single malt and 1994 vintage (it must have been vatted at some point over the past few years since that number indicates the youngest whisky in the bottle).
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 9 Nov. 2023
Triple-copper-pot-distilled, then aged in a combination of bourbon and Oloroso sherry barrels, the whiskeys comprising Rare Cask #3 were left to mature for 13 years, after which they were vatted together to continue developing for another 17 years in a trio of first-fill Madeira casks.
—Richard Carleton Hacker, Robb Report, 26 Feb. 2023
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Word History
Noun
Middle English vet, vat, southern variant of fat, fet, going back to Old English fæt, going back to Germanic *fata- (whence Old Saxon fat "vessel," Old High German faz); akin to Lithuanian púodas "pot"
Noun
12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
1784, in the meaning defined above
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“Vat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vat. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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