Sample Sentences for
coalesce
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    Unfortunately, the events of last night had coalesced in her head.  (source)
    coalesced = come together
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    The rest of the family was as shocked as if Theresa had died. They coalesced, quiet, at the foot of her bed. Waiting.  (source)
    coalesced = came together; or merged
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    He liked sleep, and he liked the way his thoughts seemed to coalesce while he was dreaming.  (source)
    coalesce = come together
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    And then he jumped when the light coalesced on one spot, and he finally saw her.  (source)
    coalesced = merged or came together
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    Shifting shadows started at last to coalesce, and after a while my eyes became accustomed to the gloom, and I could see.†  (source)
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    Have You Ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight, struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words?  (source)
    coalescing = merging or coming together
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    Like water vapor crystalizing into the magnificent, unique form of a snowflake, the babble of voices coalesces into a single conversation.†  (source)
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    Today we should arrive at the school, the place where an enormous coalescence of things occurred, and I'm already feeling tense.†  (source)
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    He felt an amorphous fear, and an uncoalesced hatred for Marten, his father's right-hand man (or was it the other way around?)†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncoalesced means not and reverses the meaning of coalesced. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    And in seeing these sudden coalescences of vision and in recall of some strange fragment of thought whose origin I have no idea of, I'm like a clairvoyant, a spirit medium receiving messages from another world.†  (source)
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    Not the swarming of the divergent, parallel and finally coalescent armies, but a more inaccessible, more intimate agitation that they in some manner prefigured.†  (source)
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    It's a kind of a noncoalescence between reason and feeling.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in noncoalescence means not and reverses the meaning of coalescence. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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    The shimmering wall of air parted like a silver curtain, and then a tall man was standing next to Hodge, as if he had coalesced out of the humid air.  (source)
    coalesced = come together
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