transmutes
- present tense form of transmute (3rd person singular).
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
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
But when consumed raw, sprinkled with a little salt and pepper, a bitter alchemy transmutes its heat into an experience so intense that a single bite contains an entire sensory universe.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2021
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
Where it meets with a barren and heathy desert, it transmutes it into a paradise of delights; yea, it changeth evil into good, and all imperfection into perfection.
From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely
