sublime

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

Leonard is a sublime basketball player when he’s healthy enough to play, but he’s not a charismatic personality or a historically in-demand spokesperson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

“When the final whistle blew in the semifinal, I felt like I’d written my name into soccer history by representing my country. It was one of the most sublime moments of my career.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

This, you must understand, Octavian, is the true and sublime end of discipline: that you may rise into a new and glorious buoyancy.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

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

This acid fuses in the flame of oxidation to a brown liquid, which spreads, volatilizes, and sublimes upon the charcoal as a yellow powder, which appears crystalline in the vicinity of the assay.

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

The protochloride of mercury likewise sublimes, but it does not undergo fusion first, as is the case with the corrosive sublimate.

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

V. Is it play, when his eyes wander innocent-wild And sublimed with a sadness unfitting a child?

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

This important fact attests the length of time during which chemical processes continue after eruptions, and how open fissures may be filled up laterally by mineral matter, sublimed from volcanic exhalations.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell

It is sublimed and sacrificed on the altar of holy passion.

From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Daniel Garrison Brinton

It is not for those who symbolize divine things otherwise, who typify to their fellow-men the flesh crucified, the soul sublimed.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

It is manufactured by heating a mixture of mercurous sulphate and common salt in iron retorts, and condensing the sublimed calomel in brick chambers.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various

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

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

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

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

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

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

They were constantly distilling, incinerating, subliming, heating, in order that the spirit, or inner kernel of things, might be obtained.

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