dematerialize

Example Sentences

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The lively canvas, hardly an illustration of an event, employs light-reflective silver and golden-brown metallic paints applied in vast fields of paisley-like commas that dematerialize into a spatially ambiguous surface shimmer.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024

There is no insistence in Tanowitz’s work; its beauties flower and dematerialize before your eyes.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2023

Restaurants have had it rough in South Lake Union, where Amazon workers love lunch and can get behind a happy hour, but tend to dematerialize at dinnertime.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2020

Outside the truck, cities appear as so many bright lights, and then dematerialize, leaving Javier and the women journeyers on a big conveyor belt of cosmic darkness.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 3, 2019

“Can’t I?” replied Merlyn, taking up the position always used by philosophers who propose to dematerialize.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White