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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"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
So while dissatisfaction was crystallizing among the miners of Tombstone a keen rancor against the Earps was developing over by the San Pedro.
From When the West Was Young by Frederick R. (Frederick Ritchie) Bechdolt
Courtrey was resenting the vague something in the air that was crystallizing into resistance about him.
From Tharon of Lost Valley by Frank Tenney Johnson
In his mind, as we shall presently see, there was crystallizing an idea which was to change his course of life, if not absorb it absolutely.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Lewis Wallace
