transfigure

Example Sentences

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Two of the participants transfigure their own work.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2023

These phenomena transfigure copyrights, patents, and trademarks into subjects of everyday importance.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2022

He helps transfigure the scene from a purely technical endeavor into a kind of weightless dance, a zero-gravity ballet.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2020

If you aren’t aware that Susanna Kaysen published an influential memoir called Girl, Interrupted in 1999, the phrase is puzzling, since Loose Girl doesn’t so much promise to interrupt the truth as to transfigure it.

From Slate • Nov. 30, 2017

It kept crackling and sparking at odd moments, and every time Ron tried to transfigure his beetle it engulfed him in thick gray smoke that smelled of rotten eggs.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling