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.
• These mysterious little bottles and tubes are the stuff of pure alchemy.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Mar. 2019
• The right alchemy can make a disempowered group feel empowered, feel that they are valued.
  — Spencer Bailey, Town & Country, 26 Mar. 2019
• How does this idea of alchemy relate to creating places that have an ethical element to them?
  — Spencer Bailey, Town & Country, 26 Mar. 2019
• Caterina spent the last few years of her life with her children, continuing her lifelong study of alchemy.
  — National Geographic, 15 Mar. 2019
• Achieving this culinary alchemy at home requires little more than the ability to follow a few steps, and the right tools.
  — Francine Maroukian, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2018
• In the medicinal corners of alchemy, it was also known as the elixir of life, a universal cure that could bring eternal life.
  — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2018
• The world's most iconic artworks often spring from a delicate alchemy of place and perspective.
  — Paul Jebara, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
• Some depend on technique, relying on the alchemy of the kitchen to transform ingredients into strange new forms.
  — Ruth Reichl, Town & Country, 30 Jan. 2019
• There’s a certain alchemy to fashion design, a magic in the way a two-dimensional sketch becomes a pouf of teal brocade on the runway.
  — Amanda Brooks, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2019
• The rich, wood interiors are home to a vast array of fragrances ready to be blended by a third-generation perfumer into an alchemy of your choice.
  — Vogue, 24 Oct. 2018
• Ted Chiang has the powers of analysis and invention necessary for the alchemy.
  — Caleb Crain, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
• In a more balanced world with two reserve currencies—the euro and the dollar—the demand for safe assets could be shared and the need for financial alchemy diminished.
  — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2018
• Even in hotels and restaurants, this alchemy is memorable: The Siren, in Detroit, has slick pink walls and an oversized disco ball in its jewel box of a bar.
  — Ella Riley-Adams, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2018
• Li Po also picked up the sword and for two years received training from a Taoist couple in the mountains—two cave-dwelling hermits who also taught him Taoism, medicine and alchemy.
  — Yunte Huang, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2019
• 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
• 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
• In this case, there was like this odd alchemy and the heart just started beating.
  — CBS News, 14 Mar. 2020
• Pluto is a planet of transformation, secrets, and alchemy.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024