Example Sentences

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There, she transmutes noblewoman Marie d’Odette into a swan and assumes her identity.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2025

The third act, set decades later and entirely sung through, with music from the composer Michael Friedman, transmutes them further.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2022

According to Slant magazine, the writer-director’s flair for “go-for-broke zaniness transmutes what might otherwise have been a lump of self-indulgent cliches into gold.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2022

Like a sleazy alchemist, Hill transmutes shoestring budgets into cinematic gold, melting down and reshaping scrap metal into distinctive, often beautiful art.

From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2020

A joy, a radiance undreamed of, suddenly drops into a day, making it a memorable date forever; a joy that transmutes itself into exaltation and a higher range of energy.

From The Life Radiant by Whiting, Lilian