sublime

Some of that same intimacy returned when he played a sublime encore, a movement from Bach’s Keyboard Concerto No. 5, with string players from the orchestra.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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

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

She ran away to indulge the inclination, leaving the tender and the sublime of pleasure to Harriet’s share.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

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

If it is heated excluded from the air, it can be volatilized completely; it sublimes in bright crystals having the form of needles.

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

It melts at 235–7° C. and sublimes completely at 178° C., though the sublimation starts at 120°.

From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

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

For further purification, it may be sublimed, after having been previously mixed with a little powdered charcoal, or it may be mixed with a small quantity of iodine and heated.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various

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 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

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

The succinic acid is drawn from amber by sublimation in a gentle heat, and rises in a concrete form into the neck of the subliming vessel.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Lavoisier

He gave fairly explicit directions for the preparation, including calcination, boiling, drying, adding sal armoniack, subliming twice.

From Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Charles W. Bodemer

These piñas are then carefully weighed and put into a subliming furnace, Figs.

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

Her powers were maturing, and nobler sentiments were subliming the first heats and rude experiments.

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Margaret Fuller

"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