Examples of curdle in a Sentence
Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
Those relations curdled years ago in many cases, but could have new significance as Sinema weighs a 2024 campaign bid as an independent.
—Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2023
As dreams of building a home fail, a sense of hope can curdle into a feeling of homelessness.
—Meghan Racklin, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
And once the two arrive in the real world, his anxiety curdles into something a bit more sinister.
—Jourdain Searles, refinery29.com, 27 July 2023
The cast buoys material that, in the wrong hands, could’ve curdled in a minute.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2023
So your favorite scenes then had to be the ones that hurt — the ones that restored the show’s natural order, one in which the smiles and laughter of the Meal Fit for a King scene curdled like, well, a Meal Fit for a King spiked with Shiv’s spittle.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 May 2023
But this Little Mermaid doesn’t reimagine so much as curdle its predecessor’s story with mostly minor changes.
—Vulture, 22 May 2023
The gun sellers Carlson interviewed were primed to respond to the summer’s uprisings with a suspicion that very frequently curdled into conspiracism.
—Jack McCordick, The New Republic, 13 June 2023
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Word History
metathetic variant of cruddle, crudle, frequentative of crud entry 2
1585, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
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“Curdle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/curdle. Accessed 4 Oct. 2023.
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