How to Use solidify in a Sentence

solidify

verb
  • Work is under way to solidify the concrete that supports the building.
  • Hot wax solidifies as it cools.
  • Recent findings helped to solidify our position.
  • The international community is working to solidify its alliances.
  • If the coconut fat in your coquito starts to solidify at the top, just give it a stir.
    — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 16 Dec. 2021
  • By the following day, the grease will have mostly solidified and risen to the top.
    — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The event is where watch news is broken and trends are set or solidified.
    — Sarah Royce-Greensill, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Once the top three from each bracket are solidified, the queens will merge with the rest of the top competitors from all three groups.
    — Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 9 May 2025
  • This gives the sugars in the bread a chance to solidify, making the bread easier to slice.
    — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Cold water can solidify the sap and clog the tree, so use warm water.
    — Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
  • In her absence, the show was able to solidify the interns as part of the ensemble.
    — Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Week 4 will go down as the episode that solidified the three front-runners, and then upended it all.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 30 July 2024
  • In fact, director Paul King told Rolling Stone those clips helped solidify in his mind the actor for the role.
    — Melissah Yang, refinery29.com, 11 Dec. 2023
  • But Thomas was fragile and buzzing and not long for this world; Frost was solidifying.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2025
  • As for the series' final scene, it was solidified years ago by the co-creators.
    — Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 21 June 2025
  • For Suter, the two-year, $6.5 million deal represents a chance to solidify that be belongs in the NHL.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 29 July 2021
  • Along the way, he’s become a fan favorite, solidified a starting spot and earned the trust of Kansas coach Bill Self.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Proche had one catch for 7 yards on two targets but did little to solidify a spot on the roster.
    — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 22 Aug. 2023
  • What's helped solidify the team's spot in the standings amid its recent success is the power play.
    — Sarah McLellan, Star Tribune, 20 Apr. 2021
  • While Staal and Aho solidify this team on both ends of the ice, Taylor Hall brings an offensive spark to the second line.
    — The Athletic Nhl, New York Times, 3 May 2025
  • Reagan’s ascendency solidified the shift of the GOP to the right.
    — Elizabeth Rees / Made By History, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
  • And that helped solidify Napa Valley as being one of the truly great wine regions of the world.
    — Adam Morganstern, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • When the Moon joins with free-thinking Uranus, change can solidify within us all.
    — Chicago Tribune, 31 Dec. 2022
  • But not long after, in early March, the two went on a weekend trip to Boston and their bond solidified.
    — Valeriya Safronova, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • What has taken 300 years to solidify itself in the thread of our country cannot be undone in two years.
    — Jared Council, Forbes, 23 May 2022
  • The task is to solidify a very fragile foundation, then build on it.
    — Dom Amore, courant.com, 1 Oct. 2021
  • For all intents and purposes, July was Jamaica’s — and the island solidified that fact on the very last day of the month.
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Then there’s Rodgers, the outlier in all that with a chance to solidify Hartline’s eye for talent.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The 20th century only further solidified the idea of choice as the paramount freedom, which also meant shedding some of the guardrails of earlier eras.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 23 June 2025
  • Coastal’s Caden Bodine, a switch-hitting catcher with elite contact skills and advanced pitch framing, is trending into the first round and could solidify that status with a strong showing.
    — Giovanni Malloy, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025

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