How to Use metamorphosis in a Sentence

metamorphosis

noun
  • We have watched her metamorphosis from a shy schoolgirl into a self-confident businesswoman.
  • The class learned about how caterpillars undergo metamorphosis to become butterflies.
  • The government has undergone political metamorphosis since his election.
  • Take a look back at the square's metamorphosis in this gallery.
    — Jordan Kellogg, The Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2021
  • To touch a face that is not face but avatar, shield, metamorphosis.
    — Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Don’t be afraid — this is part of your metamorphosis.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 28 May 2026
  • This time, there was a new force urging on the metamorphosis.
    — Phred Dvorak, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The sculpture is too long for a viewer to take in its slow metamorphosis all at once.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Aldridge’s teammates are glad to see their big man’s metamorphosis.
    — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 7 Jan. 2020
  • The album is about my metamorphosis as a human and an artist.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Truman and his team have now learned how much metamorphosis reshuffles parts of the brain.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
  • For others, shedding the space where a life fell apart felt like a metamorphosis.
    — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • This suggests that the tadpole was in its late stage of metamorphosis.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Like the club, the Monarch Project has made its own metamorphosis.
    — Jessica Siles, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Nov. 2021
  • The metamorphosis brought by the burst of the monsoon is profound.
    — The Economist, 27 June 2019
  • The new regime deserves time to see if this metamorphosis will result in a big payoff.
    — Star Tribune, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Ninety years is a long time to be in a place and to have seen its bloody and at times glorious metamorphosis.
    — Danté Stewart, TIME, 19 July 2024
  • Oudolf picked up on this point, saying that the metamorphosis here is all the starker for its setting.
    — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2019
  • What many of the artists share with Clark is an interest in metamorphosis.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But the metamorphosis of her physical self changed the way the world related to her.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2021
  • One of the problems with going up and down in weight is that each metamorphosis requires re-wardrobing.
    — Paul Sassone, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Meanwhile, across the lagoon, the metamorphosis from jungle to garden still has a long way to go.
    — Jay Cheshes, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
  • And this is a metamorphosis that likely won’t be for the better, and could poison fanhood.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Thus did climatic change set in motion the first of the South’s series of metamorphoses.
    — Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 26 June 2023
  • This is just one of the many metamorphoses that the industry will experience.
    — Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • By the time Davante Adams got over to him to talk it through, a metamorphosis had begun.
    — Nate Atkins, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The results in Iowa, long a swing state, reflect the metamorphosis of both parties.
    — Janet Hook, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2018
  • The tale of Castle Park’s girls lacrosse metamorphosis is told in layers.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2024
  • Her new life is the culmination of a metamorphosis that has been both soul-crushing and cathartic.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Of all the changes in my South, perhaps the hardest to fit inside my head is the metamorphosis of the pickup truck.
    — Southern Living, 15 Dec. 2016

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