Example Sentences

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The debate itself between Clinton and Bernie Sanders was being held minutes away on campus, and somehow the notion of watching politicians discuss debt and health care had transfigured itself into must-see entertainment.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2016

The excitement that for an instant had transfigured Travers Gladwin suddenly left him.

From Officer 666 by Currie, Barton Wood

I perceived then that, child of Nature as she still was, some one had given her a careful training which had transfigured my little Welsh rustic into a lady.

From Aylwin by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

Slowly the girl had transfigured before him, slowly risen from below him to the level of his eyes; and now she was above him.

From The Forest Lovers by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

For there was now revealed a coarseness of lips, a narrowness of forehead, an ugliness of high cheek-bone, which his imperial glance had transfigured, and which his flowing locks still abated.

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel