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
Other pop scenes seemed to dematerialize in its wake.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2022
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
