How to Use coagulate in a Sentence

coagulate

verb
  • The medicine helps coagulate blood.
  • The eggs coagulate when heated.
  • The team that has coagulated around him is so strange and perfect.
    — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2023
  • Ceviche is made when the acid — found in the lime juice — coagulates the proteins in the fish.
    — Mary G. Pepitone, kansascity.com, 16 May 2017
  • When added to palm fruit juice or oil, odo, as well as kanwa (rock salt) coagulate it to produce a thick sauce or soup such as owo.
    — Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu, Quartz, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Do not use warm or hot water since this can actually cause the blood to coagulate.
    — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Do not use warm or hot water since this can actually cause the blood to coagulate.
    — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Once eggs begin to coagulate, be very careful not to overcook.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2021
  • The combined action of heat and acid helps some of the milk proteins to denature and coagulate to form a large white mass of cheese curds.
    — Nik Sharma, SFChronicle.com, 9 July 2020
  • But after a few hours, a narrative thread began to coagulate.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 13 July 2017
  • Within hours the pool would coagulate into electric-blue slush, like a gas station Slurpee.
    — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
  • Eventually, the disks evolve, and the icy dust grains coagulate to form a new solar system with planets and comets.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Sour cream is made by fermenting cream with lactic acid bacteria, which coagulates the protein in the cream.
    — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 6 Mar. 2023
  • A lot of the ambivalent parent discourse tends to coagulate around white cis-het mothers of a certain milieu.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
  • These essential microbes produce acids to coagulate the milk.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
  • This eddy was dangerous; blood cells that hang around together tend to coagulate, creating clots that can cause strokes.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
  • This can cause blood to coagulate, which could trigger potentially life-threatening blood clots.
    — Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 17 May 2011
  • Nielsen has tested it on rabbit blood, which coagulates similarly to humans.
    — Kara Carlson, The Seattle Times, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Starting eggs in cold water causes egg-white proteins to coagulate slowly, bonding tightly to the inner membrane of the shell.
    — J. Kenji López-Alt, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Stars form from whirling disks of material; the centers collapse to form stars, and the outer parts can coagulate to become planets like Earth.
    — Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2011
  • Her husband’s samples had arrived there coagulated and useless.
    — John Carreyrou, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Solid fat renders and drips out, water evaporates and flies off into the atmosphere, and proteins coagulate and contract.
    — New York Times, 19 July 2021
  • Exposed to air, the latex coagulated into a lump before being collected by tappers and sent to a processing plant.
    — Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 3 May 2023
  • That familiar lump of expectation coagulated in my stomach and throat.
    — Thomas Weddle, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Click away, and pins coagulate, then split, then scatter again; the map begins to resemble an unwieldy constellation, constantly in flux.
    — Nicole Blackwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 July 2020
  • The basketball gods have handed us an opportunity — a chance to stir up a rivalry that has been sitting cold and coagulating on the back burner for far too long.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
  • It is prepared by coagulating soy milk, then pressing the curds that are created into solid white blocks that come in a range of textures from silken, soft, and firm, to extra firm, and super firm.
    — Juliet Pennington, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
  • Researchers tasted the first trials of ant yogurt, where the milk had begun to coagulate and acidify, which are signs of early yogurt fermentation.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In both cases, the acid coagulates proteins, helping to create a tender, juicy end product, according to Lopez-Alt.
    — Omar Mamoon, SFChronicle.com, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Unique to the polar region, pancake ice forms over time as ice crystals coagulate into thicker plates, whose edges often get rounded and raised as a result of bumping into other plates.
    — Discover Magazine, 24 July 2017

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