How to Use transfiguration in a Sentence

transfiguration

noun
  • Perhaps there is no problem, or at least no problem not vastly outweighed by the tang of transfiguration.
    — Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Here, light, like water, appears to be in a near-constant state of transfiguration between liquid, matter, gas, and air.
    — Tara Anne Dalbow, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2024
  • His way of moving, almost too smooth for the rough world that his character is forced into, goes beyond technique into transfiguration.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
  • But the process of transfiguration—denaturing her pain, turning it into song—can also be healing.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • This at times seems to go beyond the showy, self-regarding transformations that stars like to take on, into a deeper transfiguration.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 28 May 2017
  • In the new film, Dumbledore is the transfiguration professor at the school.
    — Tony Hicks, The Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2017
  • But, definitely in that scene, in the transfiguration classroom, there was a monkey of some kind in a cage that did just start jerking off relentlessly.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Cable news and social media, by way of contrast, make this transfiguration of the human into the political their stock-in-trade.
    — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 20 Oct. 2020
  • That is, nothing can be done until history is ended, in the transfiguration of the world through the parousia, the coming of Christ the King.
    — Michael Robbins, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
  • For Casey, however, the transfiguration is taking place within.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is returning to the stage - with a little transfiguration to its structure.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 June 2021
  • There’s been no word yet about whether the plans for Jeffries’ transfiguration were generated before or after Bowie’s death, or whether Bowie knew about them.
    — Winston Cook-Wilson, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2017
  • That kind of transfiguration snuffs out the complexity of his everyday humanity.
    — New York Times, 20 May 2021
  • Don’t forget, Sagittarius, sometimes the right path is the difficult path, and by the middle of the week, you be forced to choose between transfiguration and stability.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 14 Aug. 2017
  • The result is an exalted transfiguration of uninhibited gossip, breezy but earnest, carefree and provocative.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2025
  • That’s what happens, what occupies the last years of his life, the transfiguration of an ephemeral, palpitating essence into a purely pictorial design.
    — Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Harper's Magazine, 22 July 2024
  • On high, God the father points to Jesus, who points to Moses and Elijah, and at whose feet sit the three apostles overwhelmed by his transfiguration into light.
    — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 29 July 2017
  • Tuesday is a feast day for the church in honor of the transfiguration of Jesus Christ, which spokeswoman Kristen Bruskas said will be the focal point of that service.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, azcentral, 1 Aug. 2019
  • There’s this bewildering Mansory snowmobile, which looks like a Transformer got stuck halfway through its transfiguration.
    — Sean Evans, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2025
  • An equally powerful transfiguration occurred through his encounter with the work of the Black American artist Romare Bearden.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Having evaded wretchedness, the gay young man making up his shining life in the city is one of civilization’s wonders, and Édouard Louis is a new, inspiring real-life example of such transfiguration.
    — Special To The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 11 May 2017
  • Relating folk culture to death and transfiguration, Bercot transcends the triviality of most contemporary filmmaking.
    — Armond White, National Review, 2 Nov. 2022
  • While there is great beauty in the chiaroscuro interplay between his expressionistic dissonances and Renaissance-style harmonies, his works never build toward resolution or transfiguration.
    — New York Times, 3 June 2018
  • Finding the mysticism in pedestrian life requires artful transfiguration, which is Moales’ lyrical superpower.
    — Lily Goldberg, Pitchfork, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Medieval Christians looked at the very same phenomenon and imagined it as a reflection of divine will, the transformation of a wriggly worm into a flying jewel an earthly reminder of the transfiguration of Jesus to Christ.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The philosopher William MacAskill credits his personal transfiguration to an undergraduate seminar at Cambridge.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Tens of millions of years of tectonic transfiguration and the slow desiccation of Australia have steadily eroded Eidothea’s territory, constricting its two living species to patches of forest along the continent’s eastern coastline.
    — Maddie Stone, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2020
  • This entire process, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, was not so much about the resurrection of the ancient world as its transfiguration, a multi-century habit of rendering the ancients comprehensible to Northern Europeans.
    — Charles King, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2020

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