How to Use coalesce in a Sentence

coalesce

verb
  • The ice masses coalesced into a glacier over time.
  • And it all kind of coalesced there.
    — Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The right, in turn, coalesced around her.
    — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Voters could coalesce around one or two of those left.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
  • So all these ideas coalesced, but the spearhead was the idea of faith.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Dec. 2025
  • There is also hope that this team could coalesce without a move.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2021
  • There’s a kind of drama in the way her thoughts coalesce and disband.
    — New York Times, 9 May 2022
  • The attack isn’t the only area that needs some time to coalesce.
    — Jordan Culver, Pro Soccer USA, 25 Mar. 2018
  • An instant fan club of sorts coalesced around Glantz.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • While that’s coalescing, toast a few thick slices of bread, and butter the hell out of them.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2024
  • And once roasted, let the gratin rest a beat to coalesce—then grab some bread to run through the drippings.
    — WSJ, 26 July 2022
  • Lana shared details of the plan that the others in the room had already coalesced around.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 29 July 2025
  • The band had really coalesced and was tight.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Even in its constant state of flux, the Tide seems to be coalescing.
    — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Clouds still coalesce from the breath of some 390 billion trees.
    — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The leftovers coalesced into a dusty disk swirling around the infant star.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 19 Feb. 2026
  • That’s not to say that the future Avengers crew has to coalesce around more than one leader.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 12 Sep. 2021
  • So far, that has not spurred Congress to coalesce around a plan to address health care costs.
    — Sam Gringlas, NPR, 17 Dec. 2025
  • These factors tend to coalesce to make the actual cost of a home lower.
    — Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Refresh muddled through the next few years as the local tech scene started to coalesce.
    — Rob Wile, miamiherald, 22 Apr. 2018
  • At best, this is a top-10 defense just waiting to coalesce.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
  • By Episode 4, though, the lust and love all start to coalesce into something with sparks.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 16 May 2024
  • These patterns often coalesce around ideas and approaches that have worked in the past.
    — Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • Over the years, a number of threats coalesced to strain the okapi population.
    — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
  • While the Hawks coalesced late, questions remain of how far the current build can go.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 May 2026
  • Cooper believes the divide between the sides is too wide to coalesce.
    — Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 29 Jan. 2023
  • For one thing, most voters for the other Democrats may coalesce around Aguirre.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
  • His dad taught him how cuts, screens and handoffs coalesced to create advantages.
    — Brendan Marks, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Pink’s look served as an example of how multiple trends can coalesce.
    — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2025
  • What pressures or conditions have coalesced to move a person to speak?
    — Sam Lipsyte, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025

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