transmute

Example Sentences

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Astrologers consult a national zodiac, palm readers ring pagodas, would-be alchemists attempt to transmute mercury into gold and SIM card companies advertise dial-a-diviners.

From Barron's

In Heaney’s poetry the personal is always transmuted by a larger vision.

From The Wall Street Journal

"What causes something to be insulating, conducting or magnetic? Can we transmute something into a different state?"

From Science Daily

According to Israel's Basic Law, the president "has the power to pardon criminals and reduce or transmute their sentence".

From BBC

Her feelings of kinship with precipitation are transmuted into a delightfully conceived scene in which little versions of Amélie appear inside every falling raindrop.

From Los Angeles Times