How to Use alchemy in a Sentence

alchemy

noun

• The company hoped for some sort of economic alchemy that would improve business.
• She practiced her alchemy in the kitchen, turning a pile of vegetables into a delicious salad.
• But with so much up in the air, the equation starts to look less like algebra and more like alchemy.
  — Lionel Laurent, Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Instead, something about the alchemy of its setting and the style of its play instantly feels arresting.
  — Julie Muncy, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2018
• Moments that, through the alchemy of the internet, become transformed into sharable speech.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2018
• Those teams brought a passion that helped Sardelli fully understand the alchemy between a town and a team.
  — David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2024
• With its unusual mix of genre plot propulsion and odd character moments, the film makes for an eccentric alchemy.
  — Mark Olsen, latimes.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• The history of alchemy is the history of early chemistry.
  — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2018
• Concert programming is akin to alchemy, in that the pieces, the performers and the audience are all part of real-time event.
  — Elaine Schmidt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2018
• In its four decades, the internet has seen a lot of conceptual alchemy, but there's nothing quite so odd as the Cult of Kek.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2018
• But because there's an alchemy there, in huddling close to some old television, diving together into another world.
  — Julie Muncy, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2018
• As users become better informed, the alchemy of taking their data without paying and manipulating them for profit may die.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• But with the beloved Stardew Valley, Eric Barone discovered the alchemy of quiet gamemaking.
  — Sam White, GQ, 21 Mar. 2018
• Pruitt’s brand of alchemy may have attracted voters who see politics as ideological warfare, but not those who want politicians to promise that their roads will be paved and then pave those roads.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2018
• But part of why Strings fits Driver like custom couture is Driver’s gift for performing a kind of alchemy with silliness and seriousness.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2024
• Ask 3 clarifying questions, then suggest 5 'money alchemy' strategies that could improve my financial health.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
• While studying at Juilliard, Williams moonlighted as a jazz pianist in nightclubs, and those two skills — formal and footloose — created an alchemy for film scoring.
  — Tim Greiving, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• And that’s part of the transcendence and the alchemy of it.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2023
• In a kind of alchemy, trousers looked like skirts, and skirts like trousers.
  — Colleen Barry, ajc, 25 Sep. 2022
• This is a glimpse of the alchemy that forges one people from many.
  — David Brog, National Review, 1 Aug. 2019
• And this was that kind of perfect job where the alchemy was just there.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 4 Mar. 2024
• Will Stewart work the same kind of alchemy in his new show?
  — oregonlive, 28 Apr. 2021
• Fame can fizzle, or a star can trip up, and the alchemy has to be just right.
  — Time, 20 June 2023
• That’s the alchemy that tech giants still can’t solve for.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 26 Feb. 2021
• What is the strange alchemy that enables friends and teammates to bring out the best in us?
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
• There’s a lot of alchemy there that leads to what happened with that young man.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2023
• The result is the kind of rock & roll alchemy that turns cheese into gold.
  — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2024
• But that mind in itself, not the scene-to-scene alchemy of the movie, is what emerges most thrillingly.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2021
• But the chemistry has been good, the alchemy even better.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2023
• The alchemy of that celebration will stay with us for the rest of our lives.
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024