How to Use congeal in a Sentence

congeal

verb

• The gravy began to congeal in the pan.
• That work has yet to congeal into a plan that can win the votes needed to pass.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 8 May 2023
• Blood clots Clots are congealed clumps of blood that can form inside a vein.
  — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 2 June 2020
• The wax will cling and congeal around the cardboard holder and come out in one wiggle.
  — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2021
• More did fall to our northeast as storms congealed, but that’s not much help here.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• Clearly, the 49ers have congealed as a defense as well.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
• This produced lactic acid, which in turn caused parts of the milk to congeal into curd.
  — Douglas Girardot, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
• The next day, the kitchen sink was stopped up by eight cups of bacon grease that had congealed into a solid mass.
  — Lara Korte, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
• Plastic is refined from that dead stuff and allowed to cool and congeal into the shape of a fork.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2022
• The scene that really congealed the whole movie was the one where Evelyn and Joy-slash-Jobu reunite in the parking lot.
  — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2023
• In a few moments the crowd and death would congeal in a waxen, translucent unity.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 15 June 2018
• The waxy globs are congealed sap that indicated plum curculio (worms) were in the fruit.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• Still, the world should still be concerned about the current spat congealing into a lengthy cold war.
  — David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 11 May 2019
• As the front approaches, waves of showers may congeal into a squall line with heavy rain and gusty winds.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
• The cheese of the triple-protein stack was beginning to congeal into a raft of safety-orange wax.
  — Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2022
• Puffers move across the Go board and leave behind chaos that congeals into static debris.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2020
• The chickpea mass congealed and cooked in the next day’s sun, yielding round, brown discs that were quickly eaten by the surviving sailors.
  — Grace Linden, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
• But what sounds good on paper doesn’t always congeal in real life.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022
• In the early 1980s that started to change, and our cars began to congeal toward a standard blobby mean.
  — Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2022
• While the lean brisket erred on the side of dry on our last couple visits, the jiggly, barely congealed fat running through each slice of the marbled brisket helped keep the meat juicy.
  — Samantha Bakall, OregonLive.com, 18 July 2017
• This dust congealed into several moons, the study says.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2018
• When the disk’s material cooled and congealed, the resulting planets all marched in line with the star’s equator.
  — Lisa Grossman, WIRED, 25 June 2010
• In theory of course drift could do this, but in theory, the molecules of gas in a room could all congeal to one corner.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
• Group biographies sometimes fail to congeal, but the members of this cohort did in fact have deeply enmeshed lives.
  — Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2022
• Especially compared to FPSFs of years past, where tens of thousands would congeal in the sun.
  — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2018
• The silence triggers the anger and sadness that congeal into self-loathing or some form of reckless behavior.
  — Bassey Ikpi, The Root, 21 July 2017
• Landlocked between Albania and Serbia, Kosovo was the last of the nations to congeal in the caldron of old Yugoslavia.
  — Tim Neville, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2016
• But no one has opened it for fear of destroying it: The brittle pages have been fused together by a cinder that sank through much of the book, congealing the parchment fibers.
  — Nicholas Wade, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
• Oil contains wax particles that can congeal and reduce flow, so these additives are used to keep it flowing in the cold.
  — Paul Weissler, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2020
• At stake in the rehearsals is nothing less than the future of the Democratic Party, which has yet to congeal around a positive vision.
  — Michael Scherer, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024