Sample Sentences for
transfigure
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    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)
    transfigure = change completely the appearance of
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    McGonagall transfigured the chessmen to make them alive;  (source)
    transfigured = completely changed the nature of
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    He was a man transfigured.  (source)
    transfigured = completely changed
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    Stephen's transfigured.  (source)
    transfigured = completely changed in nature or appearance
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    Transfigure myself into a better student?†  (source)
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    Once again Hilde had an almost transfiguring conviction that Sophie and Alberto really existed.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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    Those urges just become transfigured by illness.†  (source)
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    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)
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    There the sun still walked, transfiguring the peaks with glory, when all the land below was wrapped in darkness.†  (source)
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    They were all beautiful with the blinding beauty that transfigures even the plainest woman when she is utterly protected and utterly loved and is giving back that love a thousandfold.†  (source)
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    He appeared transfigured—like a man in love ....or caught in a religious trance.†  (source)
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