solvent

Example Sentences

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To make the product, the team used honey from native bees as a natural, edible solvent to draw out beneficial compounds from cocoa shells, a byproduct typically discarded during chocolate production.

From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2026

People in Killin had reported a solvent taste and smell to their water supply on Friday morning.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

Studios capture much of each ticket’s revenue—especially early in a movie’s run—but concessions deliver the profits that keep theaters solvent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

When the time came, it was the “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York,” starring John Turturro as a sleight-of-hand artist struggling to stay solvent when fewer marks carry cash.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

At first the new bond market machine concerned itself with the more solvent half of the American population.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis