How to Use coalesce in a Sentence

coalesce

verb
  • The ice masses coalesced into a glacier over time.
  • There is also hope that this team could coalesce without a move.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2021
  • All of these gasses will eventually coalesce into tighter and tighter clumps.
    Mike Wehner, BGR, 2 Apr. 2021
  • This is a global platform where impact investors coalesce to help increase the scale of impact investing.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
  • One example is cloud seeding, where airplanes flush clouds with particulate matter in order to coalesce into rain.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Platforms must collect and coalesce data in a way that is secure, meaningful, searchable and accessible.
    Lital Marom, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the lead-up to this week’s chart release, the narrative seemed to coalesce into there being a battle between country boy Jelly Roll and club rat Charli.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024
  • At first, Puerto Rican political leaders coalesced around the goal of statehood, with the two major political parties on the island adopting pro-statehood platforms.
    Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus / Made By History, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024

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