How to Use transfigure in a Sentence
transfigure
verb- Her face seemed transfigured by happiness.
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Class, cash, and condos have pilfered and transfigured the filthen place that spawned No Wave.
— Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 23 Jan. 2024 -
The event Staedler was managing was engulfed and transfigured by the city-wide joy.
— Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 13 June 2017 -
All of these have already been transfigured into a dance of ones and zeroes, or are well on their way to such a fate.
— Longreads, 14 June 2017 -
By the time Small had been using the GPR machine in the cemetery for a couple of days, she felt transfigured by a sense of calling.
— Rowan Moore Gerety, WIRED, 13 July 2023 -
What comes out of the tubes has some of the same messy sparseness: if James Turrell transfigures galleries by sculpting with light, Flavin scribbles with it.
— Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023 -
There’s a special thrill when a production manages to transfigure an old space like the Connelly, with its aura of gas lamps and ghost lights.
— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2023 -
Art transfigures life but, for every great work of art, there are casualties.
— Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024 -
At the instant the lunar disk slips entirely over the solar disk, the sun is abruptly transfigured into a foreign object.
— John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024 -
For me, the pleasure of seeing a familiar world of faces and flora transfigured in a print or on a canvas is more than enough reason to take the subway to a building where art hangs on white walls.
— Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 5 May 2017 -
For many, these numbers transfigured Covid-19 from something that might be a problem, to a near inevitability.
— C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, 18 Mar. 2020 -
That an array of drugs have this potential also means that something deeper must unite these psychedelics in their ability to transfigure the mind.
— WIRED, 15 June 2023 -
De la Mare’s many stories for grown-ups proffer even more complex visions of the familiar transfigured by strangeness.
— Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023 -
Their sorcery can transfigure people and things, bestow good or bad luck, heal or hurt — or even offer protection from danger.
— New York Times, 10 Nov. 2021 -
They are decisively transfigured only by our knowledge of the circumstances under which they were made.
— Teju Cole, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2017 -
Or a remake of that time Ron partially transfigured Scabbers into a furry water goblet.
— Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 25 Apr. 2017 -
This is, in many ways, a perfect first image of Smith, whose work is arguably best understood by a creative impulse to transfigure the ordinary into the extraordinary.
— Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Nov. 2022 -
Its story, about a fiery Scottish lass whose desire to fight and hunt like her father inadvertently leads her mother to be cursed and transfigured into a bear, is as interesting as the studio’s best.
— Allegra Frank, Vox, 27 June 2019 -
Hendricks gets them to flow together into a single, transfiguring lake.
— Vulture, 21 Dec. 2023 -
And so Baca began to transfigure his firsthand accounts from 25 years of institutionalization, six of them in federal prison, into the lyrical fabric of the film.
— Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2023 -
At no point in that process was Scott Kelly zapped by an alien laser beam, attacked by a xenomorph or otherwise transfigured into a previously unknown mutant variety of human.
— Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018 -
With the understanding that these teachers can pass on, steps can be transfigured by motivation, atmosphere, nuance.
— Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2018 -
Byrne, for instance, both captured and transfigured the essential loneliness of Roy Orbison’s music.
— Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2023 -
The expected moment of triumph was suddenly and unexpectedly transfigured into a moment of surprise and agony and shame.
— Matthew Continetti, National Review, 20 Jan. 2018 -
His paintings often depicted a human body glowing, as if transfigured, in a geometric landscape.
— Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 26 June 2023 -
The profound sense of interplanetary connection is still there, too, albeit transfigured.
— NBC News, 13 Sep. 2017 -
Yet unlike other Chameleon programs, this one took as its thematic subject the very idea of a historical sense, of composers turning to older vessels, filling them with new wine, and transfiguring them altogether in the process.
— Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2018 -
Klagsbrun is known for paintings that flowingly interpret classical myths in which women transfigure into trees or flowers.
— Washington Post, 7 May 2021 -
Discovering the particular genre conventions that Obreht has chosen to transfigure or to uphold soon becomes central to the novel’s propulsive appeal.
— Francisco Cantú, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019 -
But this was the stuff the Kardashian empire was built on: family drama transfigured into family opportunity.
— Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2017
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