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.
• Keep in mind that, over time, honey will always crystallize eventually.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2024
• Startups have faced financial hurdles, crystallized with the collapse of an Idaho project last year.
  — Ben Geman, Axios, 14 Oct. 2024
• Political crises aren't new in the Balkans, but a new version of an old crisis is now crystallizing.
  — chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• Fragrances are reflections of what was, moments crystallized behind a looking glass, seen and felt again for a moment with perfect clarity.
  — Tynan Sinks, Allure, 21 Mar. 2018
• Coach Matt Nagy’s flavor, so to speak, has yet to crystallize for observers who are curious about what the Bears’ new offense will look like.
  — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• Caveat: The predictions were made in early February, long before the lethargic free-agent market had crystallized.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 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
• But sometimes a poll comes along and crystallizes one of the big ones.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• That could crystallize, too, when he was caught in a lie.
  — Alexander Huls, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This summer isn’t over yet (phew!) but the season’s It items have more or less crystallized.
  — Emily Farra, Vogue, 26 July 2019
• And with most of 2019 behind us, the final number for the year is crystallizing.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2019
• The feeling is crystallized when, early in the film, she and Ralph head to an online game called Slaughter Race.
  — Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
• Putting a dollar figure at the center of the debate helps crystallize what is at stake.
  — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024