Example Sentences

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The queso started fine but eventually congealed into something that approximated lukewarm paste.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

During a seven-nation polar exercise in Canada earlier this year to test equipment worth millions of dollars, the U.S. military’s all-terrain arctic vehicles broke down after 30 minutes because hydraulic fluids congealed in the cold.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

Amid the monstrous heaps of twisted metal, pools of congealed oil and walls pockmarked by shrapnel, one incongruous detail catches my eye.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024

Jonathan Zaback wrote on a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that included an image of a congealed, hard-to-identify entree.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2023

Her voice had become sharp with overtones of bleakness as her soul congealed and she ceased to move, as the instinctive, omnipresent film of great weight, of an almost absolute inertia, settled over her.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick