How to Use coalesce in a Sentence

coalesce

verb
Definition of coalescenext
Synonyms for coalescenext
  • The ice masses coalesced into a glacier over time.
  • And once roasted, let the gratin rest a beat to coalesce—then grab some bread to run through the drippings.
    — WSJ, 26 July 2022
  • There’s a kind of drama in the way her thoughts coalesce and disband.
    — New York Times, 9 May 2022
  • While that’s coalescing, toast a few thick slices of bread, and butter the hell out of them.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Clouds still coalesce from the breath of some 390 billion trees.
    — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022
  • That’s not to say that the future Avengers crew has to coalesce around more than one leader.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 12 Sep. 2021
  • During the bear hunt, the dog pack can break up and coalesce time and again, and it’s just as challenging to keep track of the hunters.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 7 Oct. 2020
  • By Episode 4, though, the lust and love all start to coalesce into something with sparks.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 16 May 2024
  • What more can President Biden do at this point to get the world to coalesce around this issue?
    — ABC News, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Over the years, a number of threats coalesced to strain the okapi population.
    — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
  • These factors tend to coalesce to make the actual cost of a home lower.
    — Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 10 Sep. 2024
  • There is also hope that this team could coalesce without a move.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Cooper believes the divide between the sides is too wide to coalesce.
    — Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 29 Jan. 2023
  • After the Big Bang, dark matter coalesced in our region of space.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
  • When the moon first coalesced, the theory goes, it was covered in an ocean of roiling magma.
    — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Build up speed, though, and everything starts to coalesce.
    — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Stewart hopes Senate Democrats will fail to coalesce around the $3.5 trillion plan.
    — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Aug. 2021
  • All Trump needed to do was coalesce his base to be in a better position.
    — Harry Enten, CNN, 13 Nov. 2021
  • Had the current coalition failed to coalesce, Israel would have faced a fifth election, a prospect all sides claimed to abhor.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021
  • These patterns often coalesce around ideas and approaches that have worked in the past.
    — Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • Those memories and parties coalesced into a tour for the ages.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2023
  • While the mashup of 1970s-era grit with #MeToo themes doesn't completely coalesce, there's still plenty of cathartic justice to be had.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2022
  • But if the Sox don’t see their group rapidly coalesce this season, will next year or even 2025 be different?
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
  • The stench of ammonia hooks up with sulfur to form droplets that coalesce into dense clouds, reflecting the sun.
    — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The solid robot was able to move quickly to the ball, melt down, surround the ball, coalesce back into a solid and travel with the object out of the model.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Time is running out to coalesce and find a groove for the postseason, yet a flyover of the schedule showed Sunday was the second game in a stretch of six games in nine days.
    — Jim Owczarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2021
  • And this is because Red Hat was also a very early entrant, it’s been around a long time, and so people have kind of coalesced around it in many ways.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Democrats were too divided on immigration to coalesce around a bill of their own, let alone to pass one.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
  • With the unions coalesced around fighting the encroachment of all things AI, Netflix’s listing is now a boogeyman.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Here, at the center of the coalescing galaxies, the two black holes eat material and fling it away, carving out a gap.
    — Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2024

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