How to Use materialize in a Sentence

materialize

verb

• Rain clouds materialized on the horizon.
• A waiter suddenly materialized beside our table.
• So the pastor asked two of the largest men to sit near the door, but the threat didn’t materialize.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2022
• But, as was the case in 2022, the red wave didn't materialize.
  — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 14 Nov. 2023
• This year in Phoenix, though, the heavy rains failed to materialize.
  — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
• Over the past few months, shiny metallic orbs have materialized cities around the world, from New York to Berlin to Tokyo.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 3 Aug. 2023
• But as the session wound down, a deal had failed to materialize.
  — Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• And new pledges could materialize by the time leaders reconvene near the end of the year in Egypt.
  — Washington Post, 2 May 2022
• Plans to solve the shortfall, though, have been slow to materialize.
  — Jason Mast, STAT, 23 July 2022
• On May 30, the broadcast plans for many of their road games materialized.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
• But with just days to go before the Olympic cauldron is lit, the tourists don’t seem to be materializing.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 25 July 2024
• But by the end of the week, the council had yet to materialize, underscoring the deal’s fragility.
  — John Hudson, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
• Want more of fall 2022’s retro-to-wear trend? Leave it to Kendall Jenner to materialize one of the biggest trends of fall, the metallic moment.
  — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2022
• Whether the flood-the-zone approach will materialize remains to be seen.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2022
• Many of the predictions about AI killing jobs have — at least so far — failed to materialize.
  — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 7 Jan. 2025
• After about an hour, a rocky shoreline studded with terns and gulls materialized out of the heavy fog.
  — Maliya Ellis, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
• Then John Kreese materializes on the deck, kicks a now-dead Dennis down the stairs, and blows up the entire yacht, killing both Silver and himself.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
• The plot centers on an injured man who materializes at a down-on-its-heels monastery in the Central Valley.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
• Highs are probably around 70 (but could be lower if the rain is steady, or higher if the rain fails to materialize) with lows close to 60.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
• But even if that deal fails to materialize, expect to see a shakeup soon.
  — Brett Knight, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
• While that could be a longer-term issue, that didn’t appear to materialize much last year.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
• Once on board the ship, though, those promises may not materialize.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024
• If Abrams tanks sit on the bench while Leopard 2 tanks grab all the glory, that pressure could materialize.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2023
• Many of them have been tripped, yet no big downturn has materialized.
  — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 7 Aug. 2024
• Though a narrative feature has yet to materialize, a number of projects about the singer have been produced over the years.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 11 July 2022
• Within minutes, a deep bruise materialized on the young man’s face where one of the guards had punched him, the second student witness said.
  — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
• There has been chatter about getting a deal done for a merger, but things have yet to materialize.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
• But that didn’t materialize in the results released this week, at least not for the bigger players.
  — Gina Heeb, WSJ, 21 July 2023
• Many observers don’t expect the Canada and Mexico import duties to materialize, at least not at the 25% rate Trump targets.
  — Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
• State of play: The restlessness is beginning to materialize in Colorado after a quiet start.
  — John Frank, Axios, 7 Mar. 2025