sublimate

Example Sentences

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It almost feels like some kind of test, where you are forced to sublimate your wishes and, perhaps, your self respect.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 5, 2026

We have to sublimate a lot of emotions into our sports teams because we’re repressed.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024

Halloween may be over, but if you ask me carving a gourd still seems like a good way to sublimate creeping dread.

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2022

So they decided to sublimate the chaos of the invasion, inscribing their new fears and hopes on pre-existing works by 17 artists.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2022

Pepper51 gave 1/32 grain of corrosive sublimate every two hours in a bad form of diphtheritic croup, with favorable result.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various