crystallize
verb (used with object)
to form into crystals; cause to assume crystalline form.
were 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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“You’re a different person every minute when you’re in your 20s, but these friends really were crystallizing the person I wanted to become,” Ms. Degliantoni said.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
After studying at Oxford, he researched hate groups for the Southern Poverty Law Center before arriving at Yale just as legal issues raised by counterterrorism policies after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were crystallizing.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2014
And now Amy at thirty and Ethel at twenty-five were crystallizing into something rather hard and brilliant, as Anne would perhaps crystallize if something didn't happen.
From The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey
Othomar's face assumed an expression which was strange to it and quite new: it was as though the melancholy of his features were crystallizing into a stubborn obstinacy, a silent doggedness.
From Majesty A Novel by Louis Couperus
While this revolution was thus progressing, half-formed, half-understood political maxims, that were floating upon the tide of social life in the United States, were crystallizing into distinct tenets and assuming strongly antagonistic party positions.
From Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing
