How to Use crystallize in a Sentence

crystallize

verb
Definition of crystallizenext
Synonyms for crystallizenext
  • Her theory crystallizes in the final paragraph of the essay.
  • 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.
  • But sometimes a poll comes along and crystallizes one of the big ones.
    — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
  • 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
  • Of course, our childhood dreams don’t always crystallize into reality.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 6 Sep. 2020
  • In doing so, Dyer helped crystallize what this race is really about — the status quo at City Hall versus someone new.
    — Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2024
  • The first is a long-standing one but was recently crystallized and driven home by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
    — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 4 June 2020
  • Lively accessorized with statement rings, gold dangle earrings and crystallized Christian Louboutin heels.
    — Hannah Malach, WWD, 16 June 2024
  • In the process of un-becoming Jihyo, the idol is peeling off her custom crystallized Unistella stick-on nails one by one and stacking them like tiny pancakes.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Tougher carbon cap-and-trade programs in particular could crystallize risks to earnings identified in models such as SustainEx.
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
  • The footage from the coronavirus impact in Wuhan, China, is what crystallized the situation in Breed’s mind, and drove her to early action.
    — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Recently, Susan invited her far-flung and locked-down family to use the six-word story as a way of crystallizing — and coping with — the novel pandemic.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 11 May 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • But over the next six years, leading the racing side of Honda France, the idea of going it alone began to crystallize.
    — Jonathan Hawkins, CNN, 10 Sep. 2020
  • The scene crystallizes the film’s central quandary: What, in our society, should a Black writer be?
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2023
  • As new alliances crystallize, winners and losers emerge in their wake.
    — Guney Yildiz, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The new find suggests the magma ocean crystallized 4.46 billion years ago.
    — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
  • In a sense, the pope’s comments crystallized growing global horror over the loss of civilian life in Gaza.
    — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The collapse of the stablecoin Terra in May helped crystallize those fears.
    — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 20 July 2022
  • Working quickly can cause spots to burn while others crystallize, and cause clumps in the final mix.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2023
  • His actions at the time actually crystallize the man and his stature.
    — Carol Cain, Detroit Free Press, 22 Mar. 2023
  • But back in Washington, the effects of the midterm elections have begun to crystallize.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022

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