DILUTE in a Sentence

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For DILUTE, below is one of 12 sentences:
Skillfully, he diluted the claret with water from the carafe until the liquid was barely pink and handed the glass to Wade.

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 Meanings and Examples of DILUTE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dilute
 v.  weaken; make thinner or less concentrated by adding a liquid such as water
Classic Sentence:
1  And then she diluted the compliment by adding, "But it's powerful seldom you're a mind to, I'm bound to say."
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Skillfully, he diluted the claret with water from the carafe until the liquid was barely pink and handed the glass to Wade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
3  To plunge into that medium was to plunge into water slightly diluted with air.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
4  Little Chandler allowed his whisky to be very much diluted.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
5  She was an American woman, with a small infusion of French which seemed to have been lost in dilution.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence:
1  A couple of years back you very loudly opposed the creation of "60 MINUTES 2", I think, that it might dilute the brand that you helped build up.
2  Add water to dilute the solution to the required strength.
3  The quality of the book is diluted by the bad writing.
4  I diluted the paint with a little oil.
5  They diluted the drug, thus reducing its effectiveness.
6  Receiving water taken upstream from the outfall may be specified as a source of dilution water in effluent toxicity tests.
7  Former Tory defence secretary Liam Fox, a Eurosceptic, said allowing EU citizens to vote in the referendum "would have been an unacceptable dilution of the voice of the British people".