alcoholic

In a sentence

Three example sentences with alcoholic, each labelled with its topic.

• The recipe calls for an alcoholic vanilla extract, since the flavor compounds dissolve in spirit far better than water.

  Cooking

• Yeast turns sugar into an alcoholic solution and carbon dioxide, which is why the airlock bubbles for days.

  Science

• Surgeons scrub with an alcoholic rub that dries in seconds and kills far more bacteria than plain soap.

  Medicine

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• Science Vocabulary ListAuthoritative

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