transfigure

in a sentence

McGonagall transfigured the chessmen to make them alive;  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997

Stephen's transfigured.  (source) David Almond, Clay, 2005

It had been a very mild December and people had looked forward to a green Christmas; but just enough snow fell softly in the night to transfigure Avonlea.  (source) Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables, 1908

He was a man transfigured.  (source) John Steinbeck, The Pearl, 1947

My choices of language (speakerly, aural, colloquial), my reliance for full comprehension on codes embedded in black culture, my effort to effect immediate co-conspiracy and intimacy (without any distancing, explanatory fabric), as well as my attempt to shape a silence while breaking it are attempts to transfigure the complexity and wealth of Black American culture into a language worthy of the culture.†  (source) Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, 1970

DELPHI: —by transfiguring a stone into a dog.†  (source) Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, 2016

Open your eyes, concludes the man, and see what you can with them before they close forever, and then a piano comes on, playing a lonely song that sounds to Werner like a golden boat traveling a dark river, a progression of harmonies that transfigures Zollverein: the houses turned to mist, the mines filled in, the smokestacks fallen, an ancient sea spilling through the streets, and the air streaming with possibility.†  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

If it was handsome, it was all a cold, sedate handsomeness that gave off a somewhat disturbing aura of wisdom and pain, of having lived deeply, suffered, rallied, despaired, laughed at her despair until the face that survived all these countless darkening moods and transfigurements was lined with discernment, with a resolute sense of commitment to form, and the power to be amused slightly by the whole long journey.†  (source) Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline, 1980

Those urges just become transfigured by illness.†  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

The uprolled clouds and the colors of morning and evening, will transfigure maples and alders.†  (source) Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, 1836

Once again Hilde had an almost transfiguring conviction that Sophie and Alberto really existed.†  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

The march lasted only a minute and a half but how dark and strong, what fatedness in the rolling brass, and then there was a long silence and a white screen and finally a face that transfigures itself in a series of multiple-exposure shots, losing its goiters and gnarls, a seamed eye reopening, and it was awfully mawkish, okay, but wonderful also, a sequence that occurred outside the action proper, a distinct and visible wish connecting you directly to the mind of the film, and the man sheds his marks and scars and seems to grow younger and paler until the face finally dissolves into landscape.†  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

Now, transfigured—cold and glorious like deities with their disguises flung off—it was as if they'd flown through the roof and into the sky to assume their true, celestial homes.†  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013