sublimates
- present tense form of sublimate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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He sublimates by focusing on new fabrication methods and by researching casting and molding techniques.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
"Because Martian air is so thin and the temperatures so cold, water-ice snow sublimates, or becomes a gas, before it even touches the ground. Dry-ice snow actually does reach the ground," NASA's website states.
From Salon ● May 16, 2025
Hoss, whose quiet, sympathetic gaze can register even the subtlest shifts in emotional temperature, here sublimates her star persona in much the same way that Sharon represses her own needs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
The tiny blood siphons are attracted by the carbon dioxide that sublimates off the dry ice, like breath exhaled from a potential host.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2017
That which sublimates from the dynamic consciousness into the mental consciousness has alone any value.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
