congeal

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

Plastic wipes don't disintegrate when flushed down the toilet, so when oil and fat congeal on them, so-called fatbergs form in sewers, which water companies say cost them £200m a year to clear.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025

“They kind of take the randomness and they congeal it back into the volume. That’s the way of going from randomness to content. And that’s how you can make random videos.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

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

As the water on the surface cools, it begins to condense, and individual ice crystals act as seeds, causing the water to congeal around them, squeezing the salt out into the water below.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

By episode 2, it congeals into something like a coherent picture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

The paint congeals and my spray paint spits out; it doesn't flow smoothly because it's frozen.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025

“After awhile it all congeals and you start losing history,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2023

When passion can’t flow easily into policymaking, it congeals as angry protest, growing wilder and more paranoid.

From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2021

The blood congeals into a long, red terrycloth rectangle.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

The queso started fine but eventually congealed into something that approximated lukewarm paste.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

During a seven-nation polar exercise in Canada earlier this year to test equipment worth millions of dollars, the U.S. military’s all-terrain arctic vehicles broke down after 30 minutes because hydraulic fluids congealed in the cold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025

The mutant baby monster is the manifestation of that fear, in the same way Lilly’s visitation is the congealed manifestation of her torment.

From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2025

Amid the monstrous heaps of twisted metal, pools of congealed oil and walls pockmarked by shrapnel, one incongruous detail catches my eye.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024

He poked his fork into his potatoes, now gone cold and congealed.

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Its sensibility was shaped by a CD Mattingly grew up with that featured the Tahitian Choir: “this glorious, polyphonic, joyous sound,” he said, “that’s moving around itself and congealing and drifting apart.”

From New York Times ● May 15, 2023

And multiple stacks of pizza boxes, their cooling, congealing slices triggering Logan into one of the mini-tirades his character is famous for.

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2023

As the virus spreads, the many discrete problems that it has exposed in earlier stages of the pandemic are now congealing into one epic challenge.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2020

In the end, movement, light, music and text are all surfaces in this “Four Quartets” that prevent Eliot’s words from congealing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2020

A plate covered in congealing chicken wing bones sat on his lap.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner