Example Sentences

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Eventually they will transmute into something far more inchoate as her life unravels, and self-doubt begins to permeate her conviction that being a doctor is all that matters.

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2023

Sometimes, with the help of unsightly prosthetic horns, scars and noses, the 24-year-old singer and rapper will transmute herself into a bloodthirsty girl demon.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2021

If a solar neutrino of the right energy interacts with the material in the tanks, a feat of atomic alchemy will transmute some of the gallium into germanium, another metallic element.

From Time Magazine Archive

If you desire it, these papers will transmute themselves into a magnificent castle, into liveried servants, into superb carriages.

From A Conspiracy of the Carbonari by Safford, Mary J.

Moreover, the schools should provide a breadth of education that will "transmute days of dreary work into happier lives."

From Community Civics and Rural Life by Dunn, Arthur William