crystallize
verb (used with object)
to form into crystals; cause to assume crystalline form.
was crystallizing
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past progressiveof crystallize.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Most, if not all, of Dulli’s songs have storylines that are cinematic, but this record feels like the one where he was crystallizing that on an individual track basis.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
"It's like a photo of when the magma was crystallizing," Montes says, bagging several kilograms of samples to take back to his lab.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 26, 2018
By then, opinion among the truckers was crystallizing around increasingly ambitious demands.
From Time Magazine Archive
A little farther on we were shown what had been boiled the day before, and was crystallizing, assisted in the process by an Indian, who stirred it slowly.
From Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Parker Gillmore
That night, when he rolled himself in his blankets in the bunk tent, he had renewed his prudent determination and it was crystallizing itself in words.
From The Real Man by Francis Lynde
