Example Sentences

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Like every rapper who ever clutched a microphone, Cardi is transmuting speech into music.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2018

The other is transmuting uranium into explosive plutonium in a chain-reacting pile.

From Time Magazine Archive

By all these means Jesus Christ, here and now, is transmuting the lead and iron of our griefs into the gold of a not ignoble nor transient gladness.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander

To Nature, when she is transmuting a worthless into a better metal, what signify a thousand years?

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William