transpose

Example Sentences

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She starts on plain lined sheets, then she transposes the keepers to “scalloped paper plates.”

From New York Times

The danger of the Christian nationalist worldview is that it raises the stakes of political contests exponentially, transposing political opponents into existential enemies.

From Salon

“But our Giselle was transposed out of Austria to the bayous of Louisiana, so it made it relevant to us at the time.”

From New York Times

So I went in and I looked at the house and I walked around and looked at the patterns and colors Sarah put in there, and got those transposed from the wall to the dress.”

From Los Angeles Times

It was easy to transpose that resentment from these fictional, historical figures to the bad actors who stole my big brother’s last breath on a cross of labored breath built years before we were born.

From Salon