transposes
- present tense form of transpose (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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These are the techniques that Mr. Lerner transposes to his novels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
She starts on plain lined sheets, then she transposes the keepers to “scalloped paper plates.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2024
Choreographer Matthew Bourne transposes Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” to an asylum for young people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
Woolly Mammoth Theatre, too, has embarked on a restart with “Teenage Dick,” a reasonably diverting comedy that transposes “Richard III” to an American high school.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2021
In the earliest form of it Sir Hugh transposes and varies the lines thus: “And then she made him beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.”
From Bacon and Shakspere by Burr, William Henry
