How to Use transfigure in a Sentence

transfigure

verb

• Her face seemed transfigured by happiness.
• Class, cash, and condos have pilfered and transfigured the filthen place that spawned No Wave.
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 23 Jan. 2024
• The event Staedler was managing was engulfed and transfigured by the city-wide joy.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 13 June 2017
• All of these have already been transfigured into a dance of ones and zeroes, or are well on their way to such a fate.
  — Longreads, 14 June 2017
• By the time Small had been using the GPR machine in the cemetery for a couple of days, she felt transfigured by a sense of calling.
  — Rowan Moore Gerety, WIRED, 13 July 2023
• What comes out of the tubes has some of the same messy sparseness: if James Turrell transfigures galleries by sculpting with light, Flavin scribbles with it.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• There’s a special thrill when a production manages to transfigure an old space like the Connelly, with its aura of gas lamps and ghost lights.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2023
• Art transfigures life but, for every great work of art, there are casualties.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• At the instant the lunar disk slips entirely over the solar disk, the sun is abruptly transfigured into a foreign object.
  — John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
• For me, the pleasure of seeing a familiar world of faces and flora transfigured in a print or on a canvas is more than enough reason to take the subway to a building where art hangs on white walls.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 5 May 2017
• For many, these numbers transfigured Covid-19 from something that might be a problem, to a near inevitability.
  — C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, 18 Mar. 2020
• That an array of drugs have this potential also means that something deeper must unite these psychedelics in their ability to transfigure the mind.
  — WIRED, 15 June 2023
• De la Mare’s many stories for grown-ups proffer even more complex visions of the familiar transfigured by strangeness.
  — Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023
• Their sorcery can transfigure people and things, bestow good or bad luck, heal or hurt — or even offer protection from danger.
  — New York Times, 10 Nov. 2021
• The world on the monitor was transfigured from a blank expanse to a colorful and variegated landscape teeming with detail.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• They are decisively transfigured only by our knowledge of the circumstances under which they were made.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2017
• Or a remake of that time Ron partially transfigured Scabbers into a furry water goblet.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 25 Apr. 2017
• This is, in many ways, a perfect first image of Smith, whose work is arguably best understood by a creative impulse to transfigure the ordinary into the extraordinary.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Nov. 2022
• Its story, about a fiery Scottish lass whose desire to fight and hunt like her father inadvertently leads her mother to be cursed and transfigured into a bear, is as interesting as the studio’s best.
  — Allegra Frank, Vox, 27 June 2019
• Hendricks gets them to flow together into a single, transfiguring lake.
  — Vulture, 21 Dec. 2023
• And so Baca began to transfigure his firsthand accounts from 25 years of institutionalization, six of them in federal prison, into the lyrical fabric of the film.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2023
• At no point in that process was Scott Kelly zapped by an alien laser beam, attacked by a xenomorph or otherwise transfigured into a previously unknown mutant variety of human.
  — Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• With the understanding that these teachers can pass on, steps can be transfigured by motivation, atmosphere, nuance.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2018
• Byrne, for instance, both captured and transfigured the essential loneliness of Roy Orbison’s music.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2023
• The expected moment of triumph was suddenly and unexpectedly transfigured into a moment of surprise and agony and shame.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 20 Jan. 2018
• His paintings often depicted a human body glowing, as if transfigured, in a geometric landscape.
  — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 26 June 2023
• The profound sense of interplanetary connection is still there, too, albeit transfigured.
  — NBC News, 13 Sep. 2017
• Yet unlike other Chameleon programs, this one took as its thematic subject the very idea of a historical sense, of composers turning to older vessels, filling them with new wine, and transfiguring them altogether in the process.
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2018
• Klagsbrun is known for paintings that flowingly interpret classical myths in which women transfigure into trees or flowers.
  — Washington Post, 7 May 2021
• Discovering the particular genre conventions that Obreht has chosen to transfigure or to uphold soon becomes central to the novel’s propulsive appeal.
  — Francisco Cantú, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019

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