Example Sentences

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It was at Ferus that Bengston began to flourish, making a name for himself in the heady days when Pop art and Abstract Expressionism were coalescing into something new, edgy and unexpected.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2022

The network became a place where many direct services were coalescing — like shopping and delivering food for neighbors, checking in on the elderly, helping people navigate health care or insurance information.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2021

It was hard for me to tell whether folks were coalescing around one thing.

From Slate • Apr. 27, 2021

After 28 years abroad, she returned home in 1988 as pro-democracy protests were coalescing across the country.

From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2020

Now all the flickerings, of color, time, mind and dimensions, were coalescing into one gigantic vortex, that was a thing neither of time, nor space, nor mind, but all three somehow fused into one....

From Subjectivity by Spinrad, Norman