sublime

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

Having taken a bathroom break before the second set, a re-energised Gauff returned with more aggression, and she eventually found a way past Muchova on her ninth break point with a sublime cross-court backhand winner.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 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

This feast of gorgeous tunes fell prey to a clunky English translation by Edmund Tracey and unidiomatic conducting by Ramón Tebar, making it dull rather than sublime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 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

"Mercury, which completes the amalgam," the stout man muttered absently and as if to himself, "when heated sublimes over!"

From The Long Night by Weyman, Stanley John

Calomel is a white powder which sublimes at a low red heat; it is insoluble in water, alcohol and ether.

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

Poor Titmouse's doubts, hopes, and fears, were rapidly being sublimed into a reverence for Gammon....

From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Warren, Samuel

Hydrochloric acid and sulphuretted hydrogen are likewise plentiful, together with many other substances which, sublimed by the high internal temperature, take a solid form on cooling at the surface.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

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 Brinton, Daniel Garrison

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

Collect the sublimed matter, put it again into the sand-bath, and sublime a second time; this process must be repeated five times.

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)

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 Muir, M. M. Pattison

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

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

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

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

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 Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

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

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