sublime

Onstage as on your phone, Dylan was searching for new limits Wednesday — a lifer grinding toward the sublime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

This feast of gorgeous tunes fell prey to a clunky English translation by Edmund Tracey and unidiomatic conducting by Ramón Tebar, making it dull rather than sublime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Nothing is more sublime than transitioning from Jimin’s penetrating vocals of “You know how we do!” on “2.0” directly to the deep reverberations of the ancient bell that soothe and reset.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

In 1984, Ayrton Senna demonstrated his potential and sublime wet-weather skills by moving from 13th on the grid up to second place in his Toleman.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

In the P.M. to Westminster Abbey, but don’t expect me to describe it, that’s impossible, so I’ll only say it was sublime!

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Likewise, solid carbon dioxide does not melt at 1 atm pressure but instead sublimes to yield gaseous CO2.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

The pentachloride sublimes when warmed and forms an equilibrium with the trichloride and chlorine when heated.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

Dry ice does not melt to a liquid but sublimes directly from the solid state to vapor.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a strong heat, and in close vessels, this metal sublimes.

From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph

Bismuth, or its sulphide, sublimes into an orange or brownish globules, when it is melted, as directed above, for tellurium.

From A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations by Anonymous

Some of the color tests included the priming of boards with white lead, zinc oxide, sublimed white lead, lithopone, and other single pigment paints.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Gardner, Henry A.

Like two that had died and found each other, they talked until speech rose into silence—they smiled until the dews which the smiles had sublimed claimed their turn and descended in tears.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various

It may be destroyed by dusting the leaves attacked with sublimed sulphur.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various

Look ye that yon frail flower should be sublimed To fruit commensurate with all your power And cunning art?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various

It was the philosophy of Plato, sublimed and harmonized by the political circumstances of the times.

From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

She herself says"—and poor Louisa's complaint grew into pathos under the subliming force of her advocate's sympathy—"that she would be like a widow, and worse than a widow.

From The Perpetual Curate by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

The subliming the mercury is, however, a process injurious to the health.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Young, Daniel

A hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2O2.C6H4, subliming in shining yellow needless.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

The naphtha removes mostly only the phenanthrene, but the carbazol can be removed only by pyridine, or by subliming or distilling the anthracene over caustic potash.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various

You ought to know, my son," he said, "that this subliming pot is called aludel.

From The Queen Pedauque by Stritzko, Jos. A. V.