curdle
Example Sentences
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The danger is that economic anxiety can curdle into existential melodrama.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
A practicing Mormon, Coppins had no previous experience with gambling but quickly learned how easily the “joyful naivete” of his initial use “could curdle into delusion and compulsion.”
From Slate • May 5, 2026
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 • Dec. 25, 2025
As co-written by Baumbach and Emily Mortimer, the reunion between the two former acting buddies starts warm but quickly begins to curdle.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025
They heated the material to sixty-five degrees—hot enough to warp most proteins—then added acids to curdle the proteins, and the transmission of genes was still unaltered.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing curdle
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