congeal

Aim for dishes that still taste perfectly fine when eaten lukewarm, that don’t seize up or congeal the moment they cool.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2026

"So they stay in one piece, and they gather together with fat, oil, and grease from kitchens, congeal and create a fatberg which causes flooding."

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025

“They kind of take the randomness and they congeal it back into the volume. That’s the way of going from randomness to content. And that’s how you can make random videos.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

Ms. Jochnowitz estimated that 300 to 500 pounds of pasta had been left to congeal in the woods.

From New York Times ● May 4, 2023

After the game, his face would congeal once again.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

By episode 2, it congeals into something like a coherent picture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

The paint congeals and my spray paint spits out; it doesn't flow smoothly because it's frozen.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025

Food is an organic compound: it congeals, runs, discolors and oxidizes over time and because of the conditions in the kitchen you’re shooting in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

“Myanmar Diaries” is the rare work that captures the now of a historical upheaval, pleading to us to pay attention before a brutal present congeals into the past and determines the future.

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

The blood congeals into a long, red terrycloth rectangle.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

He said he saw congealed blood higher than the water level of the bath.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The queso started fine but eventually congealed into something that approximated lukewarm paste.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

In the Starkadders’ home, breakfast means congealed porridge, and cows are called Feckless, Aimless, Graceless and Pointless.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

The chips were cold, the queso had congealed and the salad arrived limp and sad.

From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2024

The first few times I saw her, I kept my distance—but right now, that feeling of being a chunk of pineapple congealed in Jell-O isn’t as strong as other times.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

And multiple stacks of pizza boxes, their cooling, congealing slices triggering Logan into one of the mini-tirades his character is famous for.

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2023

These are felicitously doled out, making the book voicey without congealing into shtick.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2020

There was a slackening of air, a sense of the day congealing.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2020

Artists are still getting themselves organized, shows are still congealing and some curators are probably still scratching their heads.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2020

Light the color of washwater congealing in the dirty panes of glass.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy