It came as dancing sparks that finally and suddenly coalesced into a single fat flame.

The darkness suddenly coalesced into the form of a huge silver dragon.

Now and again, four independent flurries suddenly coalesced into striking ensemble statements.

Richard hung by one arm, panting, unable to move, watching, waiting for the thing to coalesce suddenly before his face and rip him apart.

It happened like that, sometimes-information gathered in bits and pieces suddenly coalesced to form a whole that could never again be forgotten.

Democratic doubts and suspicions, suppressed or ignored for months, suddenly coalesced.

As I stand erect, the blankets piled on the bed suddenly coalesce into a recognizable shape.

Eric repeated, the shattered fragments of his life suddenly coalescing into a rage that surpassed all the anger he had ever felt before.

The thing that had been skittering intangibly along the edges of my consciousness coalesced suddenly.

The position coalesced suddenly out of the administration's slow, painstaking debate about the terms and timing of a Palestinian state.