How to Use alchemize in a Sentence

alchemize

verb

• These changes alchemize a small piece of gold into a small piece of lead.
  — Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
• The way that painful experience was alchemized into something fun -- that’s the stuff of Walk the Moon.
  — Phoebe Reilly, Billboard, 24 Aug. 2017
• That the slur cuck casts white men as victims aligns with the dicta of whiteness, which seek to alchemize one’s profligate sins into virtue.
  — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2017
• Want to know how brown sugar, honey, and olive oil are alchemized to create a superb lip exfoliant?
  — The True Spoon, Vanities, 13 Mar. 2017
• Pain should not have to be alchemized into prose, for public consumption.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2019
• Grit is what enables the winners to alchemize their native gifts into results.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 19 July 2017
• The challenge is how to process those setbacks and alchemize them into the ultimate success of your company.
  — James Garvey, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
• The director Damien Chazelle wanted to alchemize the city’s present-day studios, freeways and vistas into an aria to the city’s original spirit.
  — Boris Kachka, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
• Biscuits, like many of the world’s most delicious things, are peasant food and thus are meant to be made with the cheapest ingredients that, in the hands of a skilled cook, alchemizes into edible gold.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2020
• The emotion also echoes the poignant evidence laid out in this book, bearing witness to Fisher’s strength, compassion, talent and ability to alchemize pain into art.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
• Your guides are asking you to alchemize the pain, overwhelming feelings, or frustration that’s been present into something beautiful.
  — Meghan Ros, Glamour, 1 July 2021
• The condos have helped make New York a magnet for foreign plutocrats eager to alchemize dubious fortunes into solid square footage.
  — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Jan. 2018
• The sets are a creepy simulacrum of the surrounding village, alchemizing local history and lore into horror.
  — New York Times, 11 Oct. 2019
• My college roommate resigned herself to buying different shades of liquid foundation and alchemizing them into a hybrid of her own.
  — Rawiya Kameir, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2019
• Like an oyster producing a lustrous pearl from an agitating agent, Neil’s meeting with the renamed Rockets alchemized gnarly, sloppy energy into molten beauty.
  — Morgan Enos, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2018
• There’s something really relaxed about being in the desert, something really alchemizing.
  — Arielle Paul, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2019
• The pre-recession two-thousands were an unusual time in American economic history—a moment in which frenetic but ambiguous activity seemed to alchemize into prosperity.
  — Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
• Miraculously, Maddin succeeds in alchemizing this Hollywood junkola into something strange, new, and frequently wonderful.
  — J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 26 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024