Sample sentences for TRANSMUTE

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Definition

to change completely in appearance or elemental nature

Eragon buries Brom in a tomb of sandstone, which Saphira transmutes into pure diamond.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest

Why was it given to one man to have his pain transmuted into gladness?
Alan Paton -- Cry, the Beloved Country
The obvious suggestions have been made—displace, transmute, dissemble.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement
Somewhere between speech and hearing is a transmutation of sound.
Joy Kogawa -- Obasan

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
E.M. Forster -- A Room With A View
Consider the Marine Corps Memorial as the ultimate transmutation of The Photograph.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers

It is more than progress; it is transmutation.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

It subdivided itself again and again—but from the very first stage, transmutation was occurring.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World

As if in an economics class I had been ushered over into a column of transmutable commodities: the Murdered.
Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones

(Editor's note: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.)

He was still smiling, it was a smile of amusement, but it was as if amusement could be transmuted into some shining glory.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
He was glad that he had not tried to transmute anything larger.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
There is a shepherd—youth, a friend of mine, who transmutes them into something highly fascinating to my simplicity.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
But, as if in recognition of the colder fuel that drove her, "fiery" transmuted to "ruthless."
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
A transmutation had been effected.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Walter Benson read it again and again, and gradually the world around him was transmuted.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
He believed that metal could be transmuted into gold by mixing it with extract of urine.
Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate
Oh, this is dreadful!" she went on, unconscious of the transmutation she was effecting.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd

He swam in a sea of money, and when money was transmuted back into paper he was left gasping and confused, and he died.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
It's called transmutation.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons

Alteration vs. Transmutation
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2

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