How to Use sublimate in a Sentence

sublimate

verb

• I sublimated my grief at the death of my mother by throwing myself into my work.
• She sublimated her erotic feelings into a series of paintings.
• To sublimate this film of words, the director put huge care in the images and music.
  — Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 28 Apr. 2023
• Over time, the ice sublimated (transitioned straight from a solid to a gas), and the patch faded.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 22 Mar. 2017
• So the idea was to have the three or four products that in a flash help sublimate a face with very simple and spontaneous gestures.
  — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 14 June 2018
• When comets pass close to a star, the heat of the star causes their ice to sublimate, creating long, streaming tails that can stretch behind the comets.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 Apr. 2022
• On a dry, windy day, up to around two inches of snow can sublimate into the atmosphere.
  — Steven R. Fassnacht, The Conversation, 27 July 2021
• In all that, there's some deeper metaphor, no doubt, about otherness, and all the ways that love and shame can sublimate even our core beliefs.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2022
• These women sublimated their own needs for those of others, and always did it with a smile.
  — Maya Rupert, The Atlantic, 29 May 2017
• This causes the water molecules to sublimate, or change directly from a solid to a gas, and move out of the food.
  — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2019
• Regions that start out dark get hot enough to sublimate ice and thus become darker and hotter.
  — Carolyn Porco, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2017
• Since ice is a key component of a comet, when water starts to sublimate, the comet is also in danger of breaking apart.
  — Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2021
• When the sun is shining, ices in the craters sublimate, or transition from a solid into a vapor.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2015
• Each branch on the six arms looks almost like a feather because the flake has started to sublimate, or fade from a solid to gas, and has lost some hard angles.
  — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 11 Feb. 2021
• The fire is causing the frozen mass of snow to sublimate straight into water vapor, not liquid water.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2021
• The tiny blood siphons are attracted by the carbon dioxide that sublimates off the dry ice, like breath exhaled from a potential host.
  — Karla Moeller, Slate Magazine, 27 June 2017
• Sports aren't sublimated war or life and death or anything more than entertainment for most of us.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 6 Jan. 2018
• Games can play an outsized PR role in this, and this attempt to sublimate white phosphorous into that pantheon must be seen as part of that effort.
  — Nick Capozzoli, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2019
• As more carbon dioxide adds to the atmosphere, the atmosphere will trap more heat, which will sublimate more carbon dioxide, which will trap more heat, and so on.
  — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2018
• Whose ability to focus on the emotional is all too often sublimated by the work of survival?
  — Maiysha Kai, The Root, 12 July 2017
• But of course she’s also sublimated a lot of other likely previous-gen sources, from Avril to Billie (along with the aformentioned Kurt and Cure nods).
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
• Hartley is even willing to sublimate his ego, especially if Willis joins Kevin in an action movie.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 29 June 2020
• During the rest of the year, water ice that forms quickly sublimates into the atmosphere, leaving no liquid behind.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Feb. 2020
• For Wade Williams, Saugus’ video teacher, throwing himself into the project has also been a way to sublimate difficult feelings.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2020
• The model also doesn't take into account non-gravitational forces, such as the push an icy body may get when the sun warms one side, causing its frozen reserves to sublimate.
  — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 22 May 2018
• But that's not enough to overcome the extremely low pressures of the Martian atmosphere, which would cause any ice to sublimate off into vapor instead of melting.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 July 2018
• With protection from solar winds, frozen CO2 at Mars's polar ice caps would start to sublimate, or turn directly into gas from a solid.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2017
• In the 1960s, battles among boomers were mostly sublimated in the overall boomer rebellion against their elders—their authority, their ways and their war.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2018
• Subjected to the low temps and low-pressure atmosphere of the freeze-drier, its water sublimates away, leaving fruit that’s light, bright and intensely flavored.
  — Leah Eskin, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2018
• And Ireland’s turn as the exhausted, disappointed Sonya, sublimating her grief to prop up Vanya’s spirits, is poignantly on point.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 14 July 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024