sublime

Bonus: my car smelled sublime — minty and fresh — the entire way home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

It was another reminder of Pogacar’s sublime talent but also his panache.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Kerr didn't just break it, he smashed it by nearly half a second, running a simply sublime three minutes 42.66 seconds.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Other Stones records contain more classics and better production, but none holds together as well as a whole or comes as close to the sublime as this one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

All men of talent, whether they be men of feeling or not; whether they be zealots, or aspirants, or despots—provided only they be sincere—have their sublime moments, when they subdue and rule.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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 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

Know you what it is when anguish, with apocalyptic NEVER, To a Pythian height dilates you, and despair sublimes to power?

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

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

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

The delicate paleness of her cheeks, the glance that was sublimed into the sweetest melancholy, made me tremble with unspeakable pleasure.

From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various

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 Henry A. Gardner

Sometimes one does not see the given beauty at first, and then he has the pleasure of puzzling it out; sometimes he never sees it, and then his life is sublimed with an insoluble conundrum.

From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells

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

Children are very fond of attempting experiments in dying, and are very curious about vegetable dyes; but they can seldom proceed for want of the means of boiling, evaporating, distilling, and subliming.

From Practical Education, Volume I by Maria Edgeworth

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

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

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster