In a sentence
Six example sentences with extract, each labelled with its topic.
A teaspoon of almond extract turns a plain sponge cake into something the whole street can smell.
Cooking
For centuries apothecaries sold a bitter willow bark extract, steeped for hours, long before anyone isolated the active compound.
Medicine
The team soaked the dried leaves overnight and tested whether the resulting extract still killed the mold in petri dishes.
Science
The family firm sells a vanilla extract steeped for months in small barrels, and the smell fills the whole street.
Business
Medieval scribes made ink from an extract of crushed oak galls left to soak in rainwater for several days.
Art
The gym shop sells green tea extract in capsules, though the trainer says a brewed cup does the same job.
Fitness
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Found in 8 published word lists
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)Authoritative
- University Word List (Xue & Nation 1984)Authoritative
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)Authoritative
- Medical Academic Word ListAuthoritative
- Nursing Word ListAuthoritative
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- Science Vocabulary ListAuthoritative
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)Recognized
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