How to Use coagulate in a Sentence

coagulate

verb

• The medicine helps coagulate blood.
• The eggs coagulate when heated.
• Ceviche is made when the acid — found in the lime juice — coagulates the proteins in the fish.
  — Mary G. Pepitone, kansascity.com, 16 May 2017
• The team that has coagulated around him is so strange and perfect.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2023
• The combined action of heat and acid helps some of the milk proteins to denature and coagulate to form a large white mass of cheese curds.
  — Nik Sharma, SFChronicle.com, 9 July 2020
• When added to palm fruit juice or oil, odo, as well as kanwa (rock salt) coagulate it to produce a thick sauce or soup such as owo.
  — Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu, Quartz, 2 Sep. 2022
• Eventually, the disks evolve, and the icy dust grains coagulate to form a new solar system with planets and comets.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023
• Once eggs begin to coagulate, be very careful not to overcook.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2021
• Sour cream is made by fermenting cream with lactic acid bacteria, which coagulates the protein in the cream.
  — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 6 Mar. 2023
• Stars form from whirling disks of material; the centers collapse to form stars, and the outer parts can coagulate to become planets like Earth.
  — Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2011
• But after a few hours a narrative thread began to coagulate.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 11 July 2017
• But after a few hours, a narrative thread began to coagulate.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 13 July 2017
• Starting eggs in cold water causes egg-white proteins to coagulate slowly, bonding tightly to the inner membrane of the shell.
  — J. Kenji López-Alt, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2019
• In both cases, the acid coagulates proteins, helping to create a tender, juicy end product, according to Lopez-Alt.
  — Omar Mamoon, SFChronicle.com, 16 Apr. 2020
• It is prepared by coagulating soy milk, then pressing the curds that are created into solid white blocks that come in a range of textures from silken, soft, and firm, to extra firm, and super firm.
  — Juliet Pennington, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
• This eddy was dangerous; blood cells that hang around together tend to coagulate, creating clots that can cause strokes.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
• Where, in combination with the wild bacteria forever in our air (and even the air of an empty calf’s stomach), the rennet native there further coagulated and firmed the curds into the first cheese.
  — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 31 July 2019
• Traditionally the chicken is poached in a mob of ginger, and might land at the table accompanied by sides of its gizzards and coagulated blood.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2017
• The Cultures for Health version is microbial in origin, serving as an animal-free product that is equally able to coagulate the proteins in milk.
  — Grace Dickinson, Philly.com, 16 May 2018
• Still, there have been numerous clinical reports of the virus having a range of impacts on the body, from entering the neural tissues to affect sense of taste and smell to affecting the body’s ability to coagulate blood.
  — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 16 May 2020
• Unique to the polar region, pancake ice forms over time as ice crystals coagulate into thicker plates, whose edges often get rounded and raised as a result of bumping into other plates.
  — Discover Magazine, 24 July 2017
• In the early 2000s, the Washington Aqueduct came under fire again for releasing high amounts of alum, a substance used to coagulate sediments to filter them from the water, into the Potomac River.
  — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2022
• This can cause blood to coagulate, which could trigger potentially life-threatening blood clots.
  — Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 17 May 2011
• Click away, and pins coagulate, then split, then scatter again; the map begins to resemble an unwieldy constellation, constantly in flux.
  — Nicole Blackwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 July 2020
• Solid fat renders and drips out, water evaporates and flies off into the atmosphere, and proteins coagulate and contract.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2021
• Exposed to air, the latex coagulated into a lump before being collected by tappers and sent to a processing plant.
  — Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 3 May 2023
• Traditionally, milk is heated, mixed with probiotic cultures and rennet to coagulate, drained of its whey, sprinkled with salt, brined and then aged in barrels, tins or baskets for at least two months.
  — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2021
• Nielsen has tested it on rabbit blood, which coagulates similarly to humans.
  — Kara Carlson, The Seattle Times, 8 Dec. 2017
• Then, at the very end of the procedure, the umbilical-cord vessels inexplicably began to coagulate.
  — Sarah Stewart Johnson, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2020
• On its first album of new material in 10 years, Evanescence continues to own the space where frosty electronic currents collide with volcanic surges of metal catharsis and coagulate into hard rock candy.
  — Star Tribune, 8 Apr. 2021

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