How to Use crystallize in a Sentence

crystallize

verb

• He tried to crystallize his thoughts.
• Her theory crystallizes in the final paragraph of the essay.
• Eventually the paint will start to crystallize.
• The final paragraph of the essay crystallizes her theory.
• Certain conditions can cause carbon to crystallize into diamonds.
• Certain conditions can crystallize carbon into diamonds.
• They might not be thought out, but the shows can help crystallize them.
  — Longreads, 22 Jan. 2018
• But sometimes a poll comes along and crystallizes one of the big ones.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• And the answers will begin to crystallize in the months ahead.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2017
• That could crystallize, too, when he was caught in a lie.
  — Alexander Huls, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2019
• And when Trump came on the scene, all that sort of became crystallized.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 22 Sep. 2017
• The radio didn’t help, as the scope and scale of the carnage in Texas began to crystallize.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2022
• The fruit is frozen to crystallize into juicy bits, then added to gin.
  — Laura Manske, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• Is there a moment that, to you, kind of crystallizes who Jack is?
  — Brooke Mazurek, Billboard, 19 Jan. 2018
• All of a sudden, songs started to crystallize out of the dark.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2024
• B Corp is a tool to crystallize even more of them in more concrete ways.
  — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• Was there a moment when the idea of going out on your own crystallized?
  — Leah Greenblatt, Vulture, 10 July 2023
• The time, as Quinn sees it, is now, and last year’s hiccups only crystallized that for him.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 22 July 2019
• When things are in court, court seems to be crystallizing things.
  — Tara Golshan, Vox, 22 Aug. 2018
• Over the next few weeks, their biggest needs will crystallize.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 12 June 2023
• At the halfway point of the Big Ten schedule, things have started to crystallize.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2020
• Next, use half the chopped crystallized ginger to sprinkle over the logs; roll them back and forth to press in and coat evenly.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 12 Dec. 2017
• When did the idea of making these killings into the center of your work crystallize?
  — Claudia Dreifus, The New York Review of Books, 24 Aug. 2020
• The idea crystallized with the story of the injured soldier, but that was neither the beginning nor the end for the coach.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 2 July 2018
• The dismal failure of the Clinton health-care plan in the summer of 1994 helped crystallize support for the GOP.
  — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• This summer isn’t over yet (phew!) but the season’s It items have more or less crystallized.
  — Emily Farra, Vogue, 26 July 2019
• Over the holidays, all of that hard work was crystallized in a moment.
  — Cameron Smith, AL.com, 31 Dec. 2017
• Over the past decade or so, the research has crystallized into a new understanding of the role of fire in forests.
  — Justin Gillis, The Seattle Times, 11 Aug. 2017
• These rocks likely crystallized from the magma ocean that covered the moon after that final giant impact.
  — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 18 Dec. 2024
• Now that Rickey is 50, the image of him as a once-in-a-generation player crystallizes far more quickly than those of Rickey the disgruntled ballplayer.
  — Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 21 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025