How to Use transfigure in a Sentence

transfigure

verb
  • Her face seemed transfigured by happiness.
  • All of these have already been transfigured into a dance of ones and zeroes, or are well on their way to such a fate.
    — Longreads, 14 June 2017
  • The event Staedler was managing was engulfed and transfigured by the city-wide joy.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 13 June 2017
  • Art transfigures life but, for every great work of art, there are casualties.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Class, cash, and condos have pilfered and transfigured the filthen place that spawned No Wave.
    — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 23 Jan. 2024
  • In each instance, the duties of the office transfigured the man into a sign and symbol of hope in the face of death.
    — The Editors, National Review, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Thus the god of the clan, the totemic principle, can be none other than the clan itself, but the clan transfigured and imagined.
    — Glenn Adamson, Artforum, 2 May 2026
  • Their work is made from everyday stuff, which is both celebrated and transfigured.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • Their sorcery can transfigure people and things, bestow good or bad luck, heal or hurt — or even offer protection from danger.
    — New York Times, 10 Nov. 2021
  • That an array of drugs have this potential also means that something deeper must unite these psychedelics in their ability to transfigure the mind.
    — WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • Hendricks gets them to flow together into a single, transfiguring lake.
    — Vulture, 21 Dec. 2023
  • That's just one of the ways the artist uses unexpected hues and textures to transfigure everyday subjects.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The Davis Center opened last month, transfiguring six acres at the north end of Central Park.
    — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 29 May 2025
  • At the instant the lunar disk slips entirely over the solar disk, the sun is abruptly transfigured into a foreign object.
    — John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
  • De la Mare’s many stories for grown-ups proffer even more complex visions of the familiar transfigured by strangeness.
    — Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023
  • There’s a special thrill when a production manages to transfigure an old space like the Connelly, with its aura of gas lamps and ghost lights.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2023
  • For many, these numbers transfigured Covid-19 from something that might be a problem, to a near inevitability.
    — C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Enter the Wizards, transfigured at the trade deadline but still among the league’s most eager-to-lose organizations.
    — Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2025
  • His paintings often depicted a human body glowing, as if transfigured, in a geometric landscape.
    — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 26 June 2023
  • The world on the monitor was transfigured from a blank expanse to a colorful and variegated landscape teeming with detail.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • For me, the pleasure of seeing a familiar world of faces and flora transfigured in a print or on a canvas is more than enough reason to take the subway to a building where art hangs on white walls.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 5 May 2017
  • With the understanding that these teachers can pass on, steps can be transfigured by motivation, atmosphere, nuance.
    — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The profound sense of interplanetary connection is still there, too, albeit transfigured.
    — NBC News, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Or a remake of that time Ron partially transfigured Scabbers into a furry water goblet.
    — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Klagsbrun is known for paintings that flowingly interpret classical myths in which women transfigure into trees or flowers.
    — Washington Post, 7 May 2021
  • Henrot transfigures her erotic source material into something else.
    — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The expected moment of triumph was suddenly and unexpectedly transfigured into a moment of surprise and agony and shame.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Byrne, for instance, both captured and transfigured the essential loneliness of Roy Orbison’s music.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The result was, if not a religious experience, then a spiritually transfiguring one.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2025
  • This is, in many ways, a perfect first image of Smith, whose work is arguably best understood by a creative impulse to transfigure the ordinary into the extraordinary.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Nov. 2022

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