John sat stunned for a moment as vague misgivings that had been mounting since the ship landed suddenly crystallized.

For a moment he stared into space, mesmerized by the solution that had crystallized so suddenly in his brain.

Resolve had suddenly crystallized inside him.

Then everything suddenly crystallized.

He then brought out his five-person ensemble, which opened in a somber fog until the theme of the G minor symphony suddenly crystallized out of the chaos.

She had not had time to think clearly about what had happened, and had not yet come to terms with what she'd thought about, but her half-formed conclusions suddenly crystallized.

The answer to the problem that she had been mulling over during the long drive suddenly crystallized.

While Jimmy had always been hugely disgusted with his position, the sight of the girl seemed to have suddenly crystallized all those weeks of self-contempt into a sudden almost mad desire to escape what he considered his degrading and effeminating surroundings.

When the light, the tiny, feeble beam from the ridiculous little flash had struck the energy field, the energy, that timeless, formless stuff, had suddenly crystallized, had taken on the form of the energy that it had encountered.