Example Sentences

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By episode 2, it congeals into something like a coherent picture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

The paint congeals and my spray paint spits out; it doesn't flow smoothly because it's frozen.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2025

Food is an organic compound: it congeals, runs, discolors and oxidizes over time and because of the conditions in the kitchen you’re shooting in.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2023

“Myanmar Diaries” is the rare work that captures the now of a historical upheaval, pleading to us to pay attention before a brutal present congeals into the past and determines the future.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023

The blood congeals into a long, red terrycloth rectangle.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez