congeal

Example Sentences

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Aim for dishes that still taste perfectly fine when eaten lukewarm, that don’t seize up or congeal the moment they cool.

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2026

"So they stay in one piece, and they gather together with fat, oil, and grease from kitchens, congeal and create a fatberg which causes flooding."

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2025

This can create a fascinating doubling in the sense that there’s the movie in front of you and its layered references, all of which can flow together when they don’t congeal, which alas happens here.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2024

And then it doesn’t really begin to congeal or take any shape until we’re in the edit.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2023

Although some semblance of the routinized mechanisms for political parties had begun to congeal during the debate over Jay's Treaty, nothing remotely resembling the organized campaign structure of modern political parties yet existed.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis