How to Use transmute in a Sentence

transmute

verb

• The stories of their lives were transmuted into works of fiction.
• The former criminal had transmuted into a national hero.
• The same desire to be in front of people transmuted to music.
  — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
• But the idea of transmuting some of those costs into a fee levied by government will prove a hard sell.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
• But Fuchs has transmuted some of that pain into joy through her music.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 12 May 2018
• As the data transmutes form and changes hands, its value becomes anybody’s guess.
  — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2019
• Consider getting together to transmute the mood as a team, instead of letting a lull fall over the both of you.
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2024
• And depending on the nature of the role, Nilsson could transmute that vocal metal from steel to purest silver.
  — Barrymore Laurence Scherer, WSJ, 16 May 2018
• Only in the eyes of a zealot could a story about a pop star dating a football star be transmuted into The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 31 Jan. 2024
• The ancient alchemists wanted to transmute the elements and turn lead into gold.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Mar. 2017
• The divinity which is the science of painting transmutes the painter’s mind into a resemblance of the divine mind.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
• The title refers to alchemy’s goal of transmuting base metals into gold.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
• But take a look at the very next sentence: A tendency to blame yourself and feel guilty can transmute into depression.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2010
• In Schafer’s telling, one of Zendaya’s many talents is to transmute fear into compassion.
  — Tyler Mitchell, Vogue, 9 May 2019
• Not at first meant to be shared, these become a sort of game that revives her sex life with Sylvère, and later transmute into an art project in which Chris finally finds her voice.
  — Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 11 May 2017
• Slowly, painfully, by fits and starts, the heroic narrative of the Arab spring was transmuted into something much darker.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2020
• To the casual drinker, the idea of transmuting religion or social science into cocktails may verge on the absurd.
  — Elizabeth G. Dunn, WSJ, 12 July 2018
• My plan was to use the forms primarily from a traditional mail truck but transmuted it with the character from those hippy vans.
  — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• On the southern edge of Gaza City the crystalline blue Mediterranean is being transmuted into a vast, bobbing pool of raw sewage, the product of half a million people with nowhere else for their effluent to flow.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2017
• The holy grail of alchemy was the legendary philosopher’s stone, which wasn’t a stone at all but an elusive substance that could isolate the pure essence of a material and transmute it into something else, namely gold.
  — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2018
• The other candidates, on the whole, hoped to transmute the lessons about Trump’s character and dishonesty which emerged from the impeachment into material for the campaign trail.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2019
• Then everyone takes an action in turn, transmuting food into stone or cacao into glass jugs.
  — Tom Mendelsohn, Ars Technica, 14 July 2018
• Visualize the negative energy that may be there being transmuted by this light and feel it’s warmth.
  — Lisa Stardust, Teen Vogue, 28 May 2019
• The book transmuted the trauma Vonnegut himself suffered while witnessing the firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war in 1945.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• David Cronenberg’s remake of the 1958 classic about a botched experiment that transmutes a man into a monstrous insect.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• Alia is prematurely born, and the tribe (including Paul) drinks the water transmuted by Jessica.
  — Max Evry, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
• At best, Maxo rapping about real-life trials and tribulations should be cathartic for both him and the crowd, but too often, the concert alchemy proved too delicate to transmute the experience.
  — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2019
• Then, the 19th-century arrival of French Impressionists in the art scene transmuted the dearth of violet in a cultural explosion.
  — Stephen MacKnik, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
• During that time, these unrooted trees transmute into floating reefs, drifting habitat for a wide range of marine species, including the wingless ocean strider, the only insect known to live in the open ocean.
  — Brian Payton, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
• When held or worn, it is known to absorb and transmute negative energy into positive vibrations, encouraging Cancer to stay rooted and present in the moment.
  — Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 21 June 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024