How to Use congeal in a Sentence

congeal

verb
  • The gravy began to congeal in the pan.
  • And that was when things started to congeal.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
  • More did fall to our northeast as storms congealed, but that’s not much help here.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
  • That work has yet to congeal into a plan that can win the votes needed to pass.
    — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 8 May 2023
  • Blood clots Clots are congealed clumps of blood that can form inside a vein.
    — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 2 June 2020
  • Episodes don’t feel like episodes, so much as chunks of one long blob-like thing meant to congeal around the edges of each movie.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The wax will cling and congeal around the cardboard holder and come out in one wiggle.
    — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2021
  • But what sounds good on paper doesn’t always congeal in real life.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The next day, the kitchen sink was stopped up by eight cups of bacon grease that had congealed into a solid mass.
    — Lara Korte, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
  • In a few moments the crowd and death would congeal in a waxen, translucent unity.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 15 June 2018
  • Plastic is refined from that dead stuff and allowed to cool and congeal into the shape of a fork.
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The waxy globs are congealed sap that indicated plum curculio (worms) were in the fruit.
    — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Still, the world should still be concerned about the current spat congealing into a lengthy cold war.
    — David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 11 May 2019
  • As the front approaches, waves of showers may congeal into a squall line with heavy rain and gusty winds.
    — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
  • On the road were bodies, bullet casings and congealing pools of blood.
    — Emmet Livingstone, The Dial, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Aside this was a pool — five or six feet long and almost as wide — of what appeared to be the same fetid liquid, congealed.
    — Ian Frisch, Curbed, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Puffers move across the Go board and leave behind chaos that congeals into static debris.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2020
  • And so, what coalition of values and principles will congeal on that axis?
    — Shikha Dalmia, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Slowing and congealing the formless language of my thoughts.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The cheese of the triple-protein stack was beginning to congeal into a raft of safety-orange wax.
    — Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Group biographies sometimes fail to congeal, but the members of this cohort did in fact have deeply enmeshed lives.
    — Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2022
  • In theory of course drift could do this, but in theory, the molecules of gas in a room could all congeal to one corner.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The chickpea mass congealed and cooked in the next day’s sun, yielding round, brown discs that were quickly eaten by the surviving sailors.
    — Grace Linden, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The silence triggers the anger and sadness that congeal into self-loathing or some form of reckless behavior.
    — Bassey Ikpi, The Root, 21 July 2017
  • Then they were scooped from the pot and set on a plate to rest, glistening and congealed, revealing the color of the filling within.
    — Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 26 Feb. 2026
  • When the disk’s material cooled and congealed, the resulting planets all marched in line with the star’s equator.
    — Lisa Grossman, WIRED, 25 June 2010
  • When the cast finally congeals at Kyle’s summer solstice party, Rachel is right up in there in the mix.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Might the thrill of their ambition congeal into something like obligation?
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Grease and oil might look harmless, but grease has the potential to congeal and harden, while leftover oil can coat your pipes and cause other things to get stuck.
    — Alexandra Kelly, Martha Stewart, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Everyone loves bacon, after all, but absolutely no one wants shiny slicks of fat congealing at the top of their drink.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2024

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