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Ben Duckett's sublime century and four wickets for Liam Dawson earned England a consolation win over Sri Lanka in their final match of the tri-series.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

To capture it, Jeon Do-yeon and Cho Yeo-jeong forged a sublime chemistry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

Douglas Keeve’s sublime 1995 documentary, “Unzipped,” follows Mizrahi in the aftermath of a train wreck, piecing his reputation back together with his next collection, attempting to make something beautiful from the rubble.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

It was with a sublime backhand winner that Musetti took charge of the second set on his first break point opportunity, before withstanding four break points to hold for a 5-2 lead.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

We in Europe are only dwarfs and no nation, ancient or modern, has conceived the art of architecture on such a sublime, great, and imposing style, as the ancient Egyptians.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

He loves the monks as great dreamers, as the chercheurs de chimères sublimes, but he cannot help them, cannot defend what they possess, for behind them already stand their heirs.

From ?mile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig

It is blue in colour and sublimes readily.

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

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

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

Love does not cease to be love because it is sublimed to the quintessence of a self-denying passion.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds

Above all, his virtues are the virtues which have been sublimed by Christianity—as it were, the cold embers of morality warmed into religion.

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

How many common men have not female society and the fervour of youthful passion sublimed into poets!

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various

"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

I shall rise from the alembic a saint of their own subliming!

From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

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 Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

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 Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by William Aldis Wright

The subliming furnaces are ranged in a row, and communicate by lines of rails with the weigh-house.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various