How to Use coalesce in a Sentence

coalesce

verb
  • The ice masses coalesced into a glacier over time.
  • Clouds still coalesce from the breath of some 390 billion trees.
    Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022
  • In skilled hands, though, those parts coalesce into something absorbing, even graceful, and undoubtedly one of a kind.
    New York Times, 12 Feb. 2022
  • And there is no obvious alternative to coalesce behind.
    Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Their hope is that all will coalesce to create a space for thought and conversation about the science and wonder of weather, as well as the art and value of sustainable living.
    Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 4 Sep. 2024
  • One solution lawmakers may coalesce around involves a one-time loosening of the signature-gathering rules.
    Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Reform bills are advanced, lobbying groups coalesce in opposition and one way or another, the legislation is killed.
    Matthew Shaer, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The vague, alternating disappointments of past projects coalesced into something more pointed.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Such shifts coalesce slowly, one realization after another.
    Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
  • And once roasted, let the gratin rest a beat to coalesce—then grab some bread to run through the drippings.
    WSJ, 26 July 2022
  • There’s a kind of drama in the way her thoughts coalesce and disband.
    New York Times, 9 May 2022
  • By Episode 4, though, the lust and love all start to coalesce into something with sparks.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 16 May 2024
  • Over the years, a number of threats coalesced to strain the okapi population.
    Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Cooper believes the divide between the sides is too wide to coalesce.
    Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 29 Jan. 2023
  • After the Big Bang, dark matter coalesced in our region of space.
    Quanta Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
  • When the moon first coalesced, the theory goes, it was covered in an ocean of roiling magma.
    Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Build up speed, though, and everything starts to coalesce.
    Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Those memories and parties coalesced into a tour for the ages.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2023
  • While the mashup of 1970s-era grit with #MeToo themes doesn't completely coalesce, there's still plenty of cathartic justice to be had.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2022
  • But if the Sox don’t see their group rapidly coalesce this season, will next year or even 2025 be different?
    Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
  • The stench of ammonia hooks up with sulfur to form droplets that coalesce into dense clouds, reflecting the sun.
    Amy Brady, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The solid robot was able to move quickly to the ball, melt down, surround the ball, coalesce back into a solid and travel with the object out of the model.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2023
  • And this is because Red Hat was also a very early entrant, it’s been around a long time, and so people have kind of coalesced around it in many ways.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Democrats were too divided on immigration to coalesce around a bill of their own, let alone to pass one.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
  • With the unions coalesced around fighting the encroachment of all things AI, Netflix’s listing is now a boogeyman.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 16 Aug. 2023
  • As expected, Democrats have since coalesced around the front-runner.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The group said to be furthest along is locally based; the others could go it alone or coalesce into a single bid.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2022
  • European Union states are starting to coalesce around a plan to cap the price of Russian crude oil at $60 a barrel ahead of a Monday deadline.
    Bloomberg.com, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Many factors coalesce to establish the value of a house.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Even after Lillard and Giannis Antetokounmpo never quite coalesced and a coaching change was required just to salvage a sense of contention.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2024

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