How to Use alchemist in a Sentence

alchemist

noun
  • Use this full moon week to become the alchemist of your own life.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, refinery29.com, 16 June 2024
  • Yes, alchemists have tried to create the philosopher's stone.
    — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2018
  • The alchemist raised an eyebrow but said nothing.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The alchemist raised an eyebrow but said nothing.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Frankenstein is more of an alchemist than a re-animator this time around.
    — John Brownlee, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2006
  • The alchemist leaned closer, lowering his voice.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The alchemist leaned closer, lowering his voice.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The alchemist leaned closer, lowering his voice.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Become an emotional alchemist and just let things dissolve a little bit.
    — Ruby Warrington and Alexandra Roxo, Teen Vogue, 14 July 2017
  • Great chefs are alchemists who can turn humble ingredients into gold.
    — Sam Sifton, New York Times, 18 May 2025
  • Part of the process of waking up and smelling the café con leche has been the launch of their own rather cool label, also called Alchemist.
    — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 23 June 2017
  • Knightley paired the white dress with alchemist inspiration and floral details with a black coat.
    — Julia Teti, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Four centuries later, the alchemist, now a ghostly white, is killed by debris from a falling building.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Four centuries later, the alchemist, now a ghostly white, is killed by debris from a falling building.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • To be healers, alchemists, buck the system, and see life just a little bit differently.
    — Giana Levy, Variety, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The ancient alchemists wanted to transmute the elements and turn lead into gold.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Mar. 2017
  • This is alchemist’s queso, unlikely elements turned to molten gold.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Their Paris outpost is like a walk back in time to a high-level alchemist from the turn of the 19th century.
    — Tanya Akim, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • This alchemist lived in Alexandria and is perhaps the first female scientist to have her work preserved in any form.
    — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2017
  • An alchemist working for elite members of society would have employed gold and mercury to combat a wide range of diseases.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Renaissance alchemists kept their work covert, and few alchemical recipes have survived to modern times.
    — Cnn, The Mercury News, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Aristotle believed the four physical elements were changeable, and alchemists took this idea and ran with it.
    — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2021
  • Second, the companies building the data centers are not alchemists.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 June 2026
  • Chinese alchemists believed that drinking potable gold in the form of elixirs, eating from gold plates and using gold utensils helped attain longevity.
    — Puja Bhattacharjee, CNN, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Based on the idea that ancient alchemists changed the makeup of physical objects as well as themselves, each dish is a study in transformation.
    — Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The covert nature of Brahe’s work was common among alchemists of the Renaissance, who kept their knowledge close to the vest.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 27 July 2024
  • Players take on the role of novice alchemists plucking ingredients from a shelf in order to brew up fantastical potions.
    — Aaron Zimmerman, Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2017
  • My dreams were of being an alchemist, someone in a workshop of beautiful metal and tools sculpting things that were visceral and come with meaning.
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Unlike the ancient alchemists’ guilds or modern elites, science is not secret, nor gated by family descent or social ties.
    — Micah Altman, The Conversation, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Maurice White, the boundless funk voyager and smooth-soul maestro who died this week at 74, was one of music’s most gifted alchemists of style.
    — Nate Chinen, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2016

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