Example Sentences

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Since 2016, a mood of distrust has congealed around the big tech companies that rule the internet, a mood often called the “techlash.”

From New York Times • May 27, 2022

Open, roars that feel as if some sort of rarefied connection has congealed already.

From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2020

And yet it’s only recently that all of this has congealed into something more substantial and damning than “rumor.”

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2019

This restraint has stood him in good stead ever since as the youthful bravura of some of his better-known contemporaries has congealed into somethingempty and cliched.

From The Guardian • May 18, 2013

Ah! this cold, cold light, how much of beauty and love it has congealed!

From Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)