dematerialize
Example Sentences
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The lively canvas, hardly an illustration of an event, employs light-reflective silver and golden-brown metallic paints applied in vast fields of paisley-like commas that dematerialize into a spatially ambiguous surface shimmer.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024
Restaurants have had it rough in South Lake Union, where Amazon workers love lunch and can get behind a happy hour, but tend to dematerialize at dinnertime.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2020
She has a distinctively concrete and practical way with photographs, and so avoids generic documentary techniques such as the vague and slow camera-moves, and the graphic transitions and effects that dematerialize photographs.
From The New Yorker • May 9, 2016
Portrayed by Sophie Scott and Tobias Beer, these musicians seem to materialize and dematerialize out of some shadowy distance beyond the train’s windows.
From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2012
The guy was so quiet and brooding, he almost seemed to dematerialize when he wasn’t speaking.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
