How to Use alchemize in a Sentence

alchemize

verb
  • These changes alchemize a small piece of gold into a small piece of lead.
    — Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Pain should not have to be alchemized into prose, for public consumption.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Who’s been watching yourself alchemize in real time.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Grit is what enables the winners to alchemize their native gifts into results.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 19 July 2017
  • Want to know how brown sugar, honey, and olive oil are alchemized to create a superb lip exfoliant?
    — The True Spoon, Vanities, 13 Mar. 2017
  • That the slur cuck casts white men as victims aligns with the dicta of whiteness, which seek to alchemize one’s profligate sins into virtue.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Their profession alchemizes money and labor into art, then back to money.
    — Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
  • The challenge is how to process those setbacks and alchemize them into the ultimate success of your company.
    — James Garvey, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The way that painful experience was alchemized into something fun -- that’s the stuff of Walk the Moon.
    — Phoebe Reilly, Billboard, 24 Aug. 2017
  • The invitation is to alchemize our shadows into strength.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Old insecurities, shadow selves, and fears may surface during this time, not to punish you, but to be witnessed, embraced, and alchemized.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Your guides are asking you to alchemize the pain, overwhelming feelings, or frustration that’s been present into something beautiful.
    — Meghan Ros, Glamour, 1 July 2021
  • The film is really about alchemizing trauma and overcoming trauma.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 15 Mar. 2026
  • In Pollard’s view, this transformative magic alchemizes when complete strangers connect and become friends.
    — Georgiana Ralphs, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The sets are a creepy simulacrum of the surrounding village, alchemizing local history and lore into horror.
    — New York Times, 11 Oct. 2019
  • My college roommate resigned herself to buying different shades of liquid foundation and alchemizing them into a hybrid of her own.
    — Rawiya Kameir, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2019
  • Biscuits, like many of the world’s most delicious things, are peasant food and thus are meant to be made with the cheapest ingredients that, in the hands of a skilled cook, alchemizes into edible gold.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2020
  • There’s something really relaxed about being in the desert, something really alchemizing.
    — Arielle Paul, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2019
  • The director Damien Chazelle wanted to alchemize the city’s present-day studios, freeways and vistas into an aria to the city’s original spirit.
    — Boris Kachka, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The condos have helped make New York a magnet for foreign plutocrats eager to alchemize dubious fortunes into solid square footage.
    — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The emotion also echoes the poignant evidence laid out in this book, bearing witness to Fisher’s strength, compassion, talent and ability to alchemize pain into art.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
  • How the producers aren’t manipulative gods, but brilliant storytellers, animated by their own needs and insecurities, who sometimes push too hard in their quest to alchemize real people into three-act structure.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
  • At Ruby’s, wonderful things happen when butter and flour alchemize, like the flaky and citrusy outsides and soft insides of the sugar buns, and an array of other French pastries that faithfully lure in crowds every weekend.
    — Ligaya Malones, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2026
  • Verdi’s Otello isn’t Shakespeare’s Othello but a cauldron that alchemizes ugly impulses into irresistible beauty.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Miraculously, Maddin succeeds in alchemizing this Hollywood junkola into something strange, new, and frequently wonderful.
    — J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 26 Apr. 2018
  • But, even in his post-summit interview with the great White House amplifier, Sean Hannity, the President struggled to alchemize the non-deal into Trumpian gold.
    — Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The pre-recession two-thousands were an unusual time in American economic history—a moment in which frenetic but ambiguous activity seemed to alchemize into prosperity.
    — Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
  • For an artist who had alchemized his collection of Prince, A Tribe Called Quest, Roberta Flack, and Marvin Gaye records into a beautiful sound of his own, this was never a slight.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The 40-year old multi-hyphenate creative has lived an abundant life in her four decades, which includes sculpting an enviable body from grit, alchemizing grief after losing her brother, father and mother a few years apart, and building a commendable career by embracing the uncomfortable.
    — Essence, 16 Jan. 2026
  • In the last two decades, Johnson has alchemized scientific knowledge into climate action, both through policy work with government leaders and with Urban Ocean Lab, the think tank she co-founded to map out strategies for coastal cities to adapt to climate impact.
    — Charlotte Hu, Time, 11 Nov. 2025

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