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

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