Example Sentences

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In earlier work, she showed that sublimating CO2 ice can trigger debris flows that cut deep channels along crater walls.

From Science Daily • Oct. 16, 2025

Yet they have enough in common that one might think they could be friends: Each is frustrated with life, work, their domestic arrangements, their parents; depressed; and sublimating their anger except as regards the other.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2023

“The show is about the costs of sublimating parts of ourselves to fit in,” Edelman said in an interview.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2023

Not only do they prevent solid ice from sublimating into vapor, they also shield planets from harmful radiation and help regulate surface temperatures within a stable range.

From Scientific American • May 30, 2017

“Yes. I’m busy sublimating my anxiety with sugar.”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold