curdle
Example Sentences
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The national innocence had curdled since his introduction, and so the hero himself couldn’t be such an innocent figure.
A decade in New York had promised stardom; by Christmas 2016, the promise had curdled.
From Los Angeles Times
Sharon would soon suffer a devastating stroke, but his Gaza policy survived and curdled.
Two Navy sailors, Jefferson Jones and his pal, Sink, have been adrift on a raft for 18 days, long enough for hunger to curdle into imagination.
From Salon
Piercing and horrible, the screaming is pitched to curdle the listener’s blood but not, in this instance, to overwhelm the voice of the narrator.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
