How to Use metamorphose in a Sentence
metamorphose
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The front lawn, meanwhile, will metamorphose into one of the world’s most glamorous outdoor lounges for artists to schmooze (at a distance) and pose for the cameras.
—Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 20 Apr. 2021
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As the apples metamorphose, their skins surrender tannins and color to the sauce—not to mention half the apples’ fiber.
—Carla Lalli Music, Bon Appetit, 22 Sep. 2017
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Of course, the genre as a whole regularly challenges the notion of a fixed identity (just think of all the metamorphosing mutants).
—Peter Nagy, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2018
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For Vaughn, True Detective offers a chance to metamorphose.
—Matt Patches, Esquire, 29 June 2015
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First off, there are techniques to estimate the temperature of the graphite the time the mineral formed, as well as the temperature at the time the rock was metamorphosed deep below the surface of the Earth.
—Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2017
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Power was increased, but the Riviera had clearly begun to metamorphose from a grand tourer into a luxo barge.
—Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 23 Feb. 2021
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Especially the moment in the opening sequence where the boy is holding his hand toward the screen, which is metamorphosing between two faces.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard, 23 Apr. 2018
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New articles are added one at a time, so issues metamorphose little by little.
—Mary Elizabeth Williams, WIRED, 1 Oct. 1995
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Founders have to convince investors that, with time and dollars, their companies will metamorphose into fat, pearly unicorns.
—Manvir Singh, Wired, 14 July 2022
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Cicadas can take 17 years to metamorphose into adulthood, spending most of that time underground.
—Liz Langley, National Geographic, 11 Aug. 2020
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Some became the largest animals on land while others can metamorphose through several stages during their lives.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2021
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Russia's World Cup soccer team, metamorphosed from national laughingstock to heroes of the motherland in less than a week.
—Fox News, 19 June 2018
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Russia’s World Cup soccer team, metamorphosed from national laughingstock to heroes of the motherland in less than a week.
—Washington Post, 19 June 2018
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For example Carlin Isles, a track and field and football star, metamorphosed into a lightning-fast rugby player.
—Diane Bell, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 June 2017
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The most aggressive caterpillars were the oldest ones, which were almost ready to metamorphose into butterflies.
—Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2020
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That heat metamorphosed a surface layer of the asteroid, which was then pulverized and redistributed by small impact events.
—Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 7 May 2020
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Until recently these hatchling larvae would metamorphose, first into pupae and then into their six-legged, winged adult phase.
—Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Nov. 2022
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Alternatively, fossils sometimes appear in slabs of stone that are in the middle of metamorphosing.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2023
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After breeding, the adults move upland again, leaving their eggs to hatch into larvae, who metamorphose either quickly or slowly depending on the speed at which their pool is drying up.
—Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 24 Mar. 2022
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The vehicle of the metaphor was no longer a barren trap but had metamorphosed into a congenial cocoon, like a station wagon traveling across the country with a family belting out road trip songs all along the way.
—Gerda Saunders, Slate Magazine, 5 June 2017
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What clarifies more slowly is that Cheryl is likewise metamorphosing.
—Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 6 July 2018
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Phoenix, who lost 50 pounds for the role, takes several opportunities to show us Arthur’s bony backside: There hasn’t been such a disturbing physique since Jeff Goldblum started metamorphosing into a fly.
—Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE.com, 2 Oct. 2019
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In the century since Osborn’s announcement, T. rex has continued to metamorphose.
—Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 21 June 2018
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But two weeks in late June could metamorphose abstraction into reality.
—Chad Pergram, Fox News, 26 May 2018
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The data offers opportunities to compare the development of nervous systems in animals that metamorphose and those that don’t.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
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In both cases, Tokyo pulled itself from the rubble and rebuilt, metamorphosing over the next half-century from third-world status into an international powerhouse.
—Jaime Gross, ELLE Decor, 23 Mar. 2010
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Nonetheless, those looking to simply improve their level of fitness while spending time in the great outdoors need not feel obligated to metamorphose into social butterflies.
—cleveland, 29 May 2021
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What started as a hobby became a business, as the items accumulating in a nuclear bunker that his daughter Agne Urbaityte had used as a contemporary dance studio in Lithuania metamorphosed over the years into a museum.
—Robert P. Walzer, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2019
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But when protests over the killing of an unarmed black man by police metamorphose into an inchoate revolutionary movement, the original object of righteous indignation has a curious way of fading from view.
—Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 2 July 2020
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But over very long durations, particularly with many layers of rock atop it, that sedimentary rock will begin to metamorphose, or change its chemical makeup.
—Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
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