How to Use crystallize in a Sentence

crystallize

verb

• He tried to crystallize his thoughts.
• Her theory crystallizes in the final paragraph of the essay.
• Eventually the paint will start to crystallize.
• The final paragraph of the essay crystallizes her theory.
• Certain conditions can cause carbon to crystallize into diamonds.
• Certain conditions can crystallize carbon into diamonds.
• The radio didn’t help, as the scope and scale of the carnage in Texas began to crystallize.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2022
• The fruit is frozen to crystallize into juicy bits, then added to gin.
  — Laura Manske, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• B Corp is a tool to crystallize even more of them in more concrete ways.
  — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• Was there a moment when the idea of going out on your own crystallized?
  — Leah Greenblatt, Vulture, 10 July 2023
• Over the next few weeks, their biggest needs will crystallize.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 12 June 2023
• At the halfway point of the Big Ten schedule, things have started to crystallize.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2020
• The scene crystallizes the film’s central quandary: What, in our society, should a Black writer be?
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2023
• As new alliances crystallize, winners and losers emerge in their wake.
  — Guney Yildiz, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• The new find suggests the magma ocean crystallized 4.46 billion years ago.
  — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• In a sense, the pope’s comments crystallized growing global horror over the loss of civilian life in Gaza.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• The collapse of the stablecoin Terra in May helped crystallize those fears.
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 20 July 2022
• Working quickly can cause spots to burn while others crystallize, and cause clumps in the final mix.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2023
• His actions at the time actually crystallize the man and his stature.
  — Carol Cain, Detroit Free Press, 22 Mar. 2023
• But back in Washington, the effects of the midterm elections have begun to crystallize.
  — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• The ice cream and sorbet were dense and creamy, without being runny or crystallized.
  — Laura Denby, Peoplemag, 6 July 2023
• Light corn syrup: Helps keep the filling from crystallizing for the smoothest, fudgiest texture.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2023
• The performance appraisal process should help to crystallize your core skills.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2022
• For Stephanie Johnson, the uncertainty of the pandemic helped crystallize thoughts that had swirled in her head for a while.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2021
• That question would crystallize over the months and years into something else: What does justice mean?
  — New York Times, 23 July 2022
• His next moves crystallize a newfound assuredness on both sides of the camera.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2021
• Yet, strangely, that very sense of abstraction, far from crystallizing over time in the course of the action, only works to hollow the movie out.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• But being in the music world helped crystallize his calling.
  — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020
• The play-in scenarios have crystallized, and Golden State needs both a victory and losses by both the Lakers and Kings to move up to eighth place.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2024
• When years of work and lessons forged through struggle will suddenly crystallize.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024