sublimation

Example Sentences

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Ajami pointed out that extreme heat is not only causing snow to melt faster but is also causing sublimation, in which snow is transformed directly to water vapor.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026

Readers will understandably recoil at the musician’s callousness, especially given Mintz’s sublimation of himself in the service of Lennon and Ono.

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2024

Once the sample has been fully solidified, the solid solvent is removed by sublimation during lyophilization.

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2024

How about a righteous female cop who takes her cases a little too personally, going so far as to endanger herself as a sublimation of the dissatisfaction in her domestic life?

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024

“I’ve gained pounds lying continuously in bed, seeking surcease and sublimation in food. Now we must run. I must leave this house. It has terrible associations.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole