dematerialize

Example Sentences

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Didion spent her later years in New York, but she was most strongly identified with her native state of California, “a hologram that dematerializes as I drive through it.”

From Washington Times • Dec. 23, 2021

Utopia Avenue dematerializes in a rosy cloud, without suffering the corrosion that tarnished so many counterculture dreams.

From Slate • Jul. 6, 2020

Amplification dematerializes the theatrical experience and divorces­ the louds and softs of the performance from genuine intimacy or physical exuberance.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2016

At the same time, it manages to incorporate those elements into a sophisticated composition that dematerializes and enlivens what could have been a hulking concrete box.

From Chicago Tribune • Oct. 28, 2014

A man closes his eyes and erects a dream-creation which, on awakening, he effortlessly dematerializes.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa