sublime

Its sublime sweeping curve is the terse expression of a complex thought.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

Cox chipped to mid-wicket, the sublime Blundell brilliantly held a thick edge off Archer and Tongue was caught at mid-on to give Henry a seventh five-wicket haul in Tests.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

Onstage as on your phone, Dylan was searching for new limits Wednesday — a lifer grinding toward the sublime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

Nothing is more sublime than transitioning from Jimin’s penetrating vocals of “You know how we do!” on “2.0” directly to the deep reverberations of the ancient bell that soothe and reset.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

It was just that it was all so new and so sublime.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

It is blue in colour and sublimes readily.

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

This affection sublimes the passions, quickens the invention, and sharpens the sagacity of the brute creation. 

From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 by Morley, Henry

But no genuine science of astronomy was founded until the Greeks sublimed experience into theory.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

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

They were not adapted to inspire her with cheerfulness, but they sublimed her sensations, and added an inexplicable fascination to sorrow.

From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

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 Gardner, Henry A.

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 Zangwill, Israel

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 Lavoisier, Antoine

The development of the latent image by mercury subliming was the most marvellous and unlooked-for part of the process, and it was for that all-important thing that Daguerre was entirely indebted to chance.

From The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years by Werge, John

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

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

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 Moore, Edward Caldwell

"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 Muir, M. M. Pattison