sublime

In return, he left us a sublime body of work, one that languished in astonishing critical neglect until the mid-19th and early-20th centuries, the result of a dwindling taste for monastic and devotional art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

An evening that had begun as silencing a smiling sextet ended in a sublime effort to open the mind beyond body and music to give peace a chance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Djokovic's movement is still sublime, his shots still potent, but his body has not always held up.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

Its sublime sweeping curve is the terse expression of a complex thought.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

Still, that afternoon, that moment, when that first molecule pierced her skin, was the beginning of our connection, one that led me into a darkness that was as twisted as it was sublime.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

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

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

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

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

This affection sublimes the passions, quickens the invention, and sharpens the sagacity of the brute creation. 

From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 by Henry Morley

By a high temperature, and with little access of air, metallic tellurium sublimes with the deposition of a grey powder.

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

Poor Titmouse's doubts, hopes, and fears, were rapidly being sublimed into a reverence for Gammon....

From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren

The sublimed white lead was in fair condition, with very little checking, and offering a fair repainting surface.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner

Graphite is usually mixed with other pigments, such as red lead and sublimed blue lead, thus serving better as a paint coating.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner

Religion has clothed this essential feature in a hundred mythologies and eschatologies, and one has always given place to another, the more sublimed to the more robust.

From Naturalism And Religion by Rudolf Otto

Hydrochloric acid and sulphuretted hydrogen are likewise plentiful, together with many other substances which, sublimed by the high internal temperature, take a solid form on cooling at the surface.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

Nor here alone the virtue reign’d, By matter’s cumb’rous form detain’d, But thence, subliming, and refin’d, Aspir’d, and reach’d its kindred mind.

From Moores Fables for the Female Sex by Edward Caldwell Moore

But I believe he is chiefly meditating on the purging and subliming of what he has already done: and repents that he has published at all yet.

From Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson by Eugene Parsons

"I know what you want better than you do," he seems often to be saying to the metals he is calcining, separating, joining and subliming.

From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir

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

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