How to Use metamorphose in a Sentence

metamorphose

verb
  • All in all, the weeks ahead are going to metamorphose our lives.
    — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 21 Oct. 2024
  • This office has been metamorphosing over time.
    — Mishal Husain, Bloomberg, 13 Mar. 2026
  • If the robot, who frequently metamorphoses, gives shape to some form of justice, it’s flayed down to a name.
    — Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • New articles are added one at a time, so issues metamorphose little by little.
    — Mary Elizabeth Williams, WIRED, 1 Oct. 1995
  • In the sphere of luxury travel, the rules of the game continue to metamorphose.
    — Paul Jebara, Town & Country, 5 Sep. 2023
  • In the last 30 years my ideas around loss have been in a continuous state of metamorphosing.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The show that began as a bottom-up look at the cutthroat world of finance has metamorphosed into something more dismal.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Find out if my salmon sear metamorphosed me into a stainless steel cookware connoisseur, or sent me back to non-stick with my tail between my legs below.
    — Alexandra Polk, refinery29.com, 7 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Founders have to convince investors that, with time and dollars, their companies will metamorphose into fat, pearly unicorns.
    — Manvir Singh, Wired, 14 July 2022
  • Inside each larva, a small urchin grows, waiting to metamorphose like a caterpillar about to turn into a butterfly.
    — Lisa S. Gardiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Away from its practicality, it’s metamorphosed into a necklace or bracelet.
    — Jessica Scemama, Glamour, 25 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Cicadas can take 17 years to metamorphose into adulthood, spending most of that time underground.
    — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 11 Aug. 2020
  • What clarifies more slowly is that Cheryl is likewise metamorphosing.
    — Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 6 July 2018
  • But two weeks in late June could metamorphose abstraction into reality.
    — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 26 May 2018
  • 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
  • The most aggressive caterpillars were the oldest ones, which were almost ready to metamorphose into butterflies.
    — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Alternatively, fossils sometimes appear in slabs of stone that are in the middle of metamorphosing.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • In many of these sculptures, trees spread and metamorphose into protective umbrellas that are rendered as exquisite, fanning patterns.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The pressure and heat of deep burial and tectonic events over eons have transformed the silt into a hard metamorphic rock, and the microbial carbon in it has metamorphosed into graphite.
    — Howard Lee, ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025
  • For Robert, that simple decision to listen to his heart metamorphosed into a beautiful and rewarding journey.
    — Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 5 June 2024
  • 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
  • And so the rabble-rouser metamorphosed into the Great Conciliator.
    — Jonathan Tepperman, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2015
  • 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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