transmute
Example Sentences
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In Heaney’s poetry the personal is always transmuted by a larger vision.
Ultimately, with Cole’s coaching, DeCruz transmuted a blue flashlight into a standing figure that brims with personality and attitude.
From New York Times
He compares the dream to that of medieval alchemists searching for how to transmute lead into gold.
From Los Angeles Times
He attributes its problems to aspirational whiteness, which can transmute ordinary greed into violence.
From Seattle Times
“It took him a long time to feel that he could transmute that very challenging material into an aesthetic object,” Krakauer said.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
