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
Other pop scenes seemed to dematerialize in its wake.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2022
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
But by inviting visitors to dematerialize the Ceiling Cat sculpture back into an Internet meme, the curator seems to say: “This was all in good fun.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2019
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
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