How to Use alchemist in a Sentence

alchemist

noun

• Even Sir Isaac Newton, considered the father of physics, was an avid alchemist who wrote a recipe for a main ingredient needed to make the fabled philosopher’s stone.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 July 2024
• In his own work, Mr. Blame was an alchemist of the unlikely.
  — Matthew Schneier, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2018
• Yes, alchemists have tried to create the philosopher's stone.
  — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2018
• Part of the process of waking up and smelling the café con leche has been the launch of their own rather cool label, also called Alchemist.
  — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 23 June 2017
• This alchemist lived in Alexandria and is perhaps the first female scientist to have her work preserved in any form.
  — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2017
• Frankenstein is more of an alchemist than a re-animator this time around.
  — John Brownlee, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2006
• Maurice White, the boundless funk voyager and smooth-soul maestro who died this week at 74, was one of music’s most gifted alchemists of style.
  — Nate Chinen, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2016
• The ancient alchemists wanted to transmute the elements and turn lead into gold.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Mar. 2017
• Once heated, the mixture started bubbling, and out came the iPhones for pictures—a step that’s unique to twenty-first-century alchemists.
  — Sam Kean, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2016
• The emperor, a passionate student of the occult, enlists Christian Stern, a young scholar and alchemist, to find the culprit.
  — Adam Woog, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2017
• An alchemist working for elite members of society would have employed gold and mercury to combat a wide range of diseases.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
• The film follows a young woman named Recent, an alchemist who belongs to a band of grifters called the Famlee, who travel the countryside cheating peasants out of their land.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2022
• Become an emotional alchemist and just let things dissolve a little bit.
  — Ruby Warrington and Alexandra Roxo, Teen Vogue, 14 July 2017
• Chinese alchemists believed that drinking potable gold in the form of elixirs, eating from gold plates and using gold utensils helped attain longevity.
  — Puja Bhattacharjee, CNN, 13 Oct. 2017
• Plenty of credit for the breakout seasons of Johnson and Hyder goes to defensive line coach and part-time alchemist Kris Kocurek.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2017
• By the middle of the eighteenth century, Europe and North America were teeming with alchemists.
  — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024
• Aristotle believed the four physical elements were changeable, and alchemists took this idea and ran with it.
  — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2018
• In its infancy, rock was hybrid music, and Mr. Berry was its most vivid and imaginative alchemist.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2017
• Tycho Brahe, a 16th-century Danish alchemist and astronomer, kept his methods close to his chest.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
• One of the most famed barbeque alchemists in the Carolinas recalled two years of two barbeque sauces Tuesday night for a potential food allergy problem.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 20 Mar. 2018
• Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the line between magic, science, and fraud is never certain.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
• Though the basic recipe of sand, soda and lime remains the industry’s core, first alchemists and then chemists have tinkered with the ingredients over the centuries to produce specialised products.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
• The visual effect is of an alchemist’s workshop masquerading as an apothecary, a Pantone showroom by way of Hogwarts, God’s own Crayola box.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Players take on the role of novice alchemists plucking ingredients from a shelf in order to brew up fantastical potions.
  — Aaron Zimmerman, Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2017
• To better understand this, think of a fairy-tale kingdom where the royal alchemist succeeded in turning lead into gold, and the delighted king ordered the royal mint to smelt more coins with it.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2022
• Of course Kraft, the alchemists behind Velveeta, have some equally ochre alternatives for your dipping delight.
  — James Joiner, Esquire, 7 Jan. 2014
• This is alchemist’s queso, unlikely elements turned to molten gold.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2019
• In 1669, a German hobby alchemist named Hennig Brand got his hands on a recipe for turning lead into gold using concentrated urine.
  — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2021
• The world is awash in electronic trash, a vast problem that is a small opportunity for such junkyard alchemists as Alex Braden and Emily Francisco.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
• Most practitioners were doomed to failure but one German alchemist named Sebalt Schwarzer made a single contribution that has stood the test of time.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024