Sample sentences for COAGULATE

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Definition

change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state

The blood began to coagulate.

coagulate = change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state

The bump on my forehead was swollen and I stopped the bleeding by lying still and letting it coagulate,
Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms

coagulate = change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state

He felt the evil coagulating about him, and he was helpless to protect himself.
John Steinbeck -- The Pearl

coagulating = getting thicker and more solid

But it coagulated and dried before it reached his chin
Ernest Hemingway -- The Old Man and the Sea

coagulated = of blood: thickened (eventually becoming a scab)

They stood on the far shore of a river... Trekking the dried floor of a mineral sea where it lay cracked and broken like a fallen plate. ...in the coagulate sands.
Cormac McCarthy -- The Road

coagulate = changed from liquid to a solid state

The blood was already coagulating inside the wound, and it was simply a matter of bandaging him up and keeping him calm until the plane landed.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
His thoughts would not coagulate.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
The public prosecutor made an effort to smile a little with his lips on which the blood had coagulated.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
I got mop and pail, sprayed a room with disinfectant, and scrubbed at coagulated blood and hardened dog, rat, and rabbit feces.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
A surgeon will probe the exposed brain before slicing into it with a scalpel, using the path of coagulated blood to trace the trajectory of the ball.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
Gets visible as it coagulates, I see.
H.G. Wells -- The Invisible Man
There was blood everywhere, coagulating to a deep red crust.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
Chouchou's mouth was a coagulated pool of dark blood; he coughed up more than a liter of blood in his agonal moments.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
There's a protein in muscle plasma called myosin that coagulates in the muscle fiber and causes rigor mortis.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
There's a thing called disseminated intravascular coagulation, but it's rare and requires all sorts of special circumstances to initiate it.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

Spit coagulated into little white gobs at the corners of her mouth.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
The next morning Sean would open the refrigerator and find the coagulated, extra Mexican pizza.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
Six hours after death the capillaries coagulate.
David Baldacci -- Zero Day
Suddenly, the blur in the distance coagulated into a farm with silos and fields and spots of cows.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
The air in the evening lamplight is coagulated, like a custard thickening; heavier sediments of light collect in the corners of the living room.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye

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