How to Use transmute in a Sentence

transmute

verb
  • The stories of their lives were transmuted into works of fiction.
  • The former criminal had transmuted into a national hero.
  • The idea that art continues to transform and transmute and change.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2026
  • But Fuchs has transmuted some of that pain into joy through her music.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 12 May 2018
  • That chapter taught us that even our pain can be transmuted into power.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The same desire to be in front of people transmuted to music.
    — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
  • But the idea of transmuting some of those costs into a fee levied by government will prove a hard sell.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
  • As the data transmutes form and changes hands, its value becomes anybody’s guess.
    — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2019
  • This lunation is your chance to transmute pain into power.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 16 Nov. 2025
  • For an instant, his fears had been allayed and transmuted into myth, into art.
    — Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • The title refers to alchemy’s goal of transmuting base metals into gold.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The ancient alchemists wanted to transmute the elements and turn lead into gold.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Mar. 2017
  • Consider getting together to transmute the mood as a team, instead of letting a lull fall over the both of you.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2024
  • Then everyone takes an action in turn, transmuting food into stone or cacao into glass jugs.
    — Tom Mendelsohn, Ars Technica, 14 July 2018
  • All would be transmuted, lightly, into fiction.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The Arriscan can scan up to five frames per second, transmuting film into digital form.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • But the other half of it is then learning to what extent that perception has served its purpose and needs to be transmuted elsewhere.
    — Garrett Bradley, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
  • His relatively measured response has transmuted over time like a tall tale told by a fisherman.
    — Darren Richman, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
  • And depending on the nature of the role, Nilsson could transmute that vocal metal from steel to purest silver.
    — Barrymore Laurence Scherer, WSJ, 16 May 2018
  • In Schafer’s telling, one of Zendaya’s many talents is to transmute fear into compassion.
    — Tyler Mitchell, Vogue, 9 May 2019
  • The divinity which is the science of painting transmutes the painter’s mind into a resemblance of the divine mind.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
  • My plan was to use the forms primarily from a traditional mail truck but transmuted it with the character from those hippy vans.
    — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Beyond lies further alchemy, as film is transmuted into digital form.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Onyx is believed to absorb and transmute negativity; hence, it is widely used as a protective stone.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
  • And the recognition that is born from taking the time to share and unpack and just see each other in your grief is the thing that actually transforms and transmutes.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2026
  • To the casual drinker, the idea of transmuting religion or social science into cocktails may verge on the absurd.
    — Elizabeth G. Dunn, WSJ, 12 July 2018
  • In the evening, the lights go down, and that communal coffee-shop energy transmutes into something a little sexier.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2024
  • The old hydrology was reasserting itself, the lake bottom transmuted back into a lake.
    — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • Adès the alchemist transmuted these quotes and subjected them to further transformations.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
  • In Saar’s world, items have always held their own energy, and in her hands that energy is transmuted into something wholly unique.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026

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