I waited for her to materialize out of the clogging curdling crowd. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object), verb (used without object), : Their friendship began to curdle as soon as they became business rivals. From Dictionary.com.
We needed Little Miss Muffet's curds and whey and we got them by separating or "curdling" the milk using enzymes found in rennet. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
It was blood-curdling and sent a chill up my spine. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 9] Reference
It was not so much a thrilling as a curdling you felt. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
Both formulas reveal curdling male involvement over time. From Wordnik.com. [The Vanishing Male Voter] Reference
She was interrupted by a shriek, long and blood-curdling. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
The hyrax equivalent of saying whee is a blood-curdling scream. From Wordnik.com. [Falling Ill in Africa, and Loving It] Reference
Junot, had told him a most blood-curdling tale of events to come. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
Faintly and thinned by long distance it came, a long curdling cry. From Wordnik.com. [A Mating in the Wilds] Reference
"You would hear blood-curdling screams" coming from there, she recalls. From Wordnik.com. [The Day That Changed America] Reference
Bin Laden, by contrast, did not issue his usual blood-curdling threats. From Wordnik.com. [TERRORISM: TALE OF THE TAPE] Reference
Then, in the silence which lay everywhere, a blood-curdling thing happened. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
Berrington had heard blood-curdling stories of what the Burmese could do in that way. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
In the young a milk curdling ferment is also secreted by the glands of this compartment. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
When they finished, they got up all at the same time, giving a blood curdling war-whoop. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
On they came in single file, their blood-curdling war whoop enough to weaken the bravest. From Wordnik.com. [Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events] Reference
With a blood-curdling attempt at a laugh, he staggered out of the house into the sunshine. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Gold] Reference
It was the most fearful, ear-deafening, blood-curdling sound he had ever heard in his life!. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
The council was long, but finally after giving the blood curdling war whoop, they rode away. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
Charles Dickens and other writers have supplied us with tales of the true blood-curdling type. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
For some time past it has been telling blood-curdling stories of the iniquities of prison rule in. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
I'm pretty sure my high-school English teacher is letting out a blood-curdling scream right about now. From Wordnik.com. [W00t! There It Is] Reference
He was rushing madly hither and thither, when suddenly he heard a blood-curdling yell not very far off. From Wordnik.com. [Queensland Cousins] Reference
Then came that awful, blood-curdling scream again, and the shadow's owner seemed to plunge headlong forward. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
Let cool for a short time, than add three well-beaten eggs, stirring constantly to keep the eggs from curdling. From Wordnik.com. [Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest] Reference
The creature floundered and slashed the water, gave a blood-curdling bellow, and rolled over on its back, dead. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference
With a blood-curdling scream the brute halted, reared backward, then ran its head back and forth over the rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Omega, the Man] Reference
The cattle quieted down after the shot, and the coyotes only occasionally gave vent to their blood-curdling yells. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X] Reference
League in all its blood-curdling details, naming every man and woman who were to be the victims of the mob's fury. From Wordnik.com. [Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre.] Reference
When I saw them coming after us and heard their blood curdling yell, I lost all courage and thought my time had come to die. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick"] Reference
There are muttered curses, a blood-curdling, demoniacal yell, then in solemn, guttural tones, "The world shall see his bones.". From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
As soon as they were out of the room and into the hall he sat up on the mat and began to yowl in a most blood-curdling manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Enchanted Island] Reference
Once they grazed the side of a floating log; it immediately turned upon them, emitting blood-curdling bellows through gaping jaws. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference
And she just bent over at the waist and screamed at the top of her lungs, as loud as she possibly could, I think, a blood-curdling scream. From Wordnik.com. [T-Bone Burnett: Zen And The Art Of Music] Reference
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