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

The only thing more devastating than the abrupt disappearance of one parent is watching another dematerialize in slow-motion.

From Washington Post • May 27, 2021

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

“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