Example Sentences

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"In the last 30 years my ideas around loss have been in a continuous state of metamorphosing," she writes.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2024

Dhoot's ambition of metamorphosing into an oil and gas giant didn't materialise either.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2022

That pitch had traveled its own Kafkaesque journey, metamorphosing as it went.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2020

Peterson’s production — duskily lighted by Peter Maradudin on a quickly metamorphosing set by Myung Hee Cho and featuring a coordinated ensemble that grasps the feeling underlying the drama — has a discreet efficiency.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2019

We can never let up; we scramble our way through one civilization after another, metamorphosing, sprouting tools and cities everywhere, and all the time new words keep tumbling out.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas