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

Last January, the temperatures were less frightening than Death Valley’s summertime triple-digits, and it was then I decided to visit, assured that I would neither melt nor dematerialize.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2011

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