sublime

But the business was viable, the staff was talented and reliable, and the work we made together would, often enough, touch something close to the sublime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

The sublime setting aside, “A Stranger in Corfu” is also satisfyingly murky.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

All of which goes to underline the main takeaway - the sublime quality of Antonelli's drive.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

His attitude to me was the same as that to the attendant; in his sublime self-feeling the difference between myself and attendant seemed to him as nothing.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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

Here the warm planet ripens and sublimes The well-baked beauties of the southern climes.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott

In a strong heat, and in close vessels, this metal sublimes.

From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley

Unified paints containing sublimed white lead are of great value, showing upon long exposure very little decay.

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

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

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

His heart throbbed with bliss that was unendurable; sense and intellect and soul and spirit were, as it were, sublimed into one white flame of delight.

From The Secret Glory by Arthur Machen

Oh, yea, the Sun in one subliming rise From Wisdom's infinite mind!

From Freedom, Truth and Beauty by Edward Doyle

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

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

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

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