How to Use heat-treat in a Sentence

heat-treat

verb

• Drink milk or juice only if it’s pasteurized (heat-treated to kill germs).
  — Brandi Jones, Health, 5 Oct. 2025
• This is especially true in color and heat-treated hair.
  — Lisa Desantis, Glamour, 15 Nov. 2025
• The same goes for boxes of soy milk or boxes of almond milk, or any food that’s been heat-treated and sealed to stay safe without refrigeration.
  — Olga R. Rodriguez, Fortune, 29 July 2026
• Bars of steel are fused together like a sandwich, heat-treated and tempered for durability and sharpness, and then ground down, polished, etched, and honed.
  — Clare Coulson, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026
• It was filled with a silicon-carbide pre-ceramic polymer and heat-treated to form amorphous silicon carbide.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
• Pool-grade diatomaceous earth, for instance, has been heat-treated and can be harmful to lungs and skin, cautions Frazer, and isn’t pest control friendly.
  — Emily Hayes, Martha Stewart, 24 June 2026
• More refined versions are filtered and heat-treated, resulting in a lighter color, milder flavor and higher smoke point, though at the cost of fewer bioactive nutrients.
  — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
• The material was synthesized at low temperature and then heat-treated in a nitrogen atmosphere.
  — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2026
• Raw milk includes milk from cows, sheep, goats, or other animals that has not been pasteurized or heat-treated to destroy bacteria, the Florida Department of Health said in the announcement.
  — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
• The verification process required meticulous preparation, including heat-treating the brittle Nb3Sn materials in furnaces at temperatures over 650°C (1202°F) to impart their superconducting properties.
  — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2025