How to Use transpose in a Sentence

transpose

verb

• I must have accidentally transposed the numbers when I dialed his phone number.
• But there’s a risk in transposing the past to the present.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• Like that level of fandom has been kind of transposed on a larger scale to Riverdale.
  — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 16 May 2018
• The phone numbers have two digits transposed and this is a mistake.
  — Konstantin Toropin, CNN, 30 Oct. 2019
• But the dementia gives the team a clue to go on: Joe may have put the Purple Heart in a safe place but transposed a few details.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2020
• Many works in the show feature photographs transposed onto the skin of the figures.
  — Eva Recinos, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• The cast from Bram Stoker’s novel are transposed to space junkers, who come across the derelict spaceship Demeter.
  — Vulture, 13 Aug. 2023
• The article also transposed the name of the Marple Township police chief.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 25 July 2023
• Don't transpose any numbers off your W-2 or other forms, as well.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 16 Apr. 2018
• This pairing of the card and the phone allows the user to transpose a picture of themselves (or their dog or anything else) onto the card.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2017
• And all of them rely upon (a) a willful misreading of the facts, and/or (b) transposing two things that sound the same but aren't.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2018
• The atmosphere of Mars would transpose the music to roughly G-sharp minor.
  — Trevor Cox, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2015
• Disney has tended to guard its oldest classics, wary of transposing them to the stage.
  — Matt Trueman, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2017
• To transpose the look to your own closet, try searching for the elaborate silhouettes that Michele loves so much.
  — Lindsay Peoples, The Cut, 3 Aug. 2017
• Obduction felt like Myst transposed to a more alien setting.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 28 Mar. 2018
• Arnett, transposing the metaphor out of the horror genre, closes the distance between viewer and viewed.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2019
• The pattern pieces were transposed to a piece of flexible high-density foam, and were then cut out and assembled.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 20 June 2018
• After the rule is published, EU member states will have one year to transpose the rules, followed by another year to adhere.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2022
• Images include a dual between Rey and Kylo Ren amid a stormy sea (transposed into a space backdrop on the poster).
  — James Hibberd, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• Easier to transpose it into a key of prurience and wait for the whole thing to stroke itself into exhaustion.
  — Laurie Penny, Longreads, 18 Jan. 2018
• On this occasion, Voltaire’s story of a young man who learns by roundabout globe-trotting that this is not the best of all possible worlds has been transposed to a, gulp, high school in 1992.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 21 June 2019
• Initially, Baig created a timeline of the artist’s major life events and transposed her own life map onto Kahlo’s.
  — Dallas News, 2 Mar. 2023
• These are stretches of DNA that can be copied and, as the name suggests transposed or incorporated into other areas of the genome.
  — Robert Martone, Scientific American, 10 July 2018
• Correction: An earlier version of this story transposed the names of Rafter and Norton in a sentence.
  — John Benson, cleveland.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• And, because sheet music of Chicago’s music and lyrics was not available in Russia, Vorobyev had to learn and transpose all the songs by ear, then write out charts for his group’s other members.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2019
• If only one of them has transposed letters in a name, that's a pretty good batting averaging.
  — Charles Curtis, For The Win, 6 Feb. 2018
• All of the shades blend, billow and balloon upward in a watercolor dreamscape, and a handful of planes fly through, the scene suddenly transposed onto the young Jiro’s awed face.
  — Maya Phillips, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• This week’s contest — to transpose two letters in a word or phrase — has often been an option in our change-a-letter neologism contests over the years.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
• That includes confirming the address of someone who signed the petition but may have transposed some numbers.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• The showrunners take considerable liberties with their source material, transposing most of the action from China to the U.K. and imbuing characters with new depth.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024