How to Use coalesce in a Sentence

coalesce

verb
  • The ice masses coalesced into a glacier over time.
  • 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
  • Those memories and parties coalesced into a tour for the ages.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • As expected, Democrats have since coalesced around the front-runner.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2023
  • European Union states are starting to coalesce around a plan to cap the price of Russian crude oil at $60 a barrel ahead of a Monday deadline.
    Bloomberg.com, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The researchers suggest that the jetlets then produce waves that heat the corona and enable the plasma to escape the sun’s gravity and coalesce to form the solar wind.
    Quanta Magazine, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Since the failure of offensives in 2023 by both Ukraine and Russia, a narrative is coalescing that the war in Ukraine has reached a stalemate.
    Jack Watling, Foreign Affairs, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Those elements, coupled with the first game this season in which the Sox offense was subdued, coalesced into a 4-1 home loss to the Pirates.
    Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Steve’s death and a lingering hit-and-run case begin to coalesce as both the local cops, and the FBI get involved in the investigation.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Still, the support that Trump has coalesced has given him the luster of an incumbent in the primary contest.
    Michael C. Bender, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Some don’t even coalesce with the canon of the franchise they’ve allegedly been created to expand upon.
    WIRED, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The House then spiraled into chaos for weeks as Republicans failed to coalesce around a new speaker.
    Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Members of the group first met in online gun forums and coalesced around Second Amendment activism.
    Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Or were those feelings of isolation and joy coalescing for you?
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2023
  • Over time, the Milky Way’s long filaments of gas and dust coalesced and resulted in the modern spiral structure of the galaxy today.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Its fans coalesced around a snippet of audio posted by Kayla Trivieri that has since been used as the soundtrack to more than 2,000 other videos.
    Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2024
  • These disks orbit around stars and are full of the gas and debris that can eventually coalesce into brand-new planets.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2023
  • Now, for the first time, a wave of regulation and moves by tech companies are coalescing in a more concerted effort to turn the tide.
    Stuart A. Thompson, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • These kids were scooped up in a dream that had been rocket-fueled by the internet and by the coalescing power of capitalism.
    Claire Dederer, Vulture, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Democrats are going to coalesce, stand behind and support Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
    ABC News, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The radical reconstruction took time to coalesce, and the Toreros won just one of their first nine games last season before closing 7-1-1.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2023

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