How to Use condense in a Sentence

condense

verb
  • Moisture in the air condenses to form tiny drops of water.
  • Condense the milk by cooking it slowly.
  • The cooler temperatures cause the gas to condense into a liquid.
  • The information is collected and then passed on to the CEO in condensed form.
  • In the oven’s high heat, the cubes condense and turn golden, and caramelize at their edges.
    Melissa Clark, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • In recent years, though, the Gulf Coast route has been condensed.
    John Sharp | , al, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The effects also have caused the shop owners to condense their stock, which is not all bad, Starr told The Aegis.
    Callan Tansill-Suddath, baltimoresun.com, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The air can then condense and turn into liquid, which falls as rain.
    Washington Post, 21 July 2021
  • So the oxygen in the air and also the nitrogen can condense onto the surface.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
  • This tends to cool and condense the moisture in the tropical storm front, which then leads to rainfall.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2023
  • And when Shin played there in 2012, poor weather led to the third and fourth rounds being condensed into a single day.
    Jin Yu Young, New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • The air goes through cool coils that pull out excess moisture and condense it into the reservoir.
    Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 6 June 2022
  • This pushes the warmer air up, causing tiny water droplets to condense and form clouds.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2022
  • And she’s now condensed those insights into her new book .
    IEEE Spectrum, 19 Nov. 2023
  • When the helium is used up, the core will condense and our star will shed its outer layers.
    Brian T. Jacobs, National Geographic, 24 Aug. 2021
  • It has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
    Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The lid’s conical shape allows moisture to condense and return to the pot, keeping the dish moist.
    Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
  • To achieve all of this, Delaney and Brühlmann elected to cut and condense several elements of the book.
    Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The idea, known as Project Tundra, is to scrub the carbon dioxide out of the plant’s exhaust smoke, condense it and inject it into deep wells.
    Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Some judicious cuts have been made in the script to condense some of the student’s backstories and speed the spelling bee action.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 26 Jan. 2023
  • It has been condensed and edited for length and clarity.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2023
  • To have to condense who your character was into a short letter.
    Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 24 June 2022
  • The creative team used the time away during the pandemic to re-conceive of the storytelling and how to condense it into one part.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 June 2021
  • All of the great adaptations condense things, smush things together, cut things out.
    Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 10 June 2022
  • The two interviews have been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
    Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
    Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 7 July 2023
  • But because the event is condensed into a short time period, April 8 will pose unique challenges.
    Christina Coulter, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Our conversation, which took place first over the phone and later over e-mail, has been condensed and edited. Nick, thanks for taking the time to talk with me.
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Below are some highlights from the AMA, which has been condensed and edited for clarity.
    Jenna Reyes, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • Here are the salient facts condensed from Painkiller’s sources and other articles, to understand the alarming true story at the heart of Netflix’s show.
    Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 10 Aug. 2023

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