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Examples of grain alcohol in a Sentence
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Ming River Baijiu is a clear grain alcohol known for its high alcohol content, typically coming in at 40% to 60% alcohol by volume.
—Clara Wang, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2024
For dessert, Irene had made banana bread, a no-waste classic: three overripe bananas, vanilla extract made from desiccated beans revived in grain alcohol, chocolate scraps given to her, like mine tailings, by an artisanal chocolatier.
—Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
Then pour in a bottle of Everclear, a 90-proof grain alcohol that can also be used for getting paint off a car bumper.
—Mike Postalakis, Spin, 5 Sep. 2023
As alcohol bans lingered, poorer quality substitutes increasingly overwhelmed the black market: bathtub gin, pure grain alcohol and other rotguts.
—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1883, in the meaning defined above
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“Grain alcohol.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grain%20alcohol. Accessed 17 Sep. 2024.
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