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

Weiss We can still get chills walking over the bridge into Lower Manhattan — in the morning light the Woolworth Building, the Gehry building, the Municipal Building all dematerialize.

From New York Times • May 6, 2020

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

In a world determined to dematerialize our interactions with each other, we crave the tactile experience of an actual card — something to choose, something to personalize, something to save.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2020

The guy was so quiet and brooding, he almost seemed to dematerialize when he wasn’t speaking.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan