The phrase "appeared to transform" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a situation or phenomenon that seems to change or evolve in some way, often in a subjective or perceived manner.
Example: "As the sun set, the landscape appeared to transform into a canvas of vibrant colors."
Alternatives: "seemed to change" or "looked as if it was transforming."
For a magical period a jubilant spirit appeared to transform Britain from a home for plucky failure to a powerhouse of achievement.
He had appeared to transform mission improbable into mission impossible by losing his head in the midst of a frantic ten-minute period just before the interval.
Knowing from previous work that chimpanzees offered cooked tubers preferred them to raw ones, they examined whether chimpanzees would use a technology that appeared to transform the raw to the cooked.
As the general public and the region's mental-health professionals came to understand the American diagnosis of anorexia, the presentation of the illness in Lee's patient population appeared to transform into the more virulent American standard.
Maureen Dolan, a reporter with the Coeur d'Alene Press, one of the first papers to break the story of Rachel Dolezal's race-swap, said she watched as the white woman she first met appeared to transform over the years.
But you knew they didn't have any damn idea". Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold, who was at the speech, said Biden appeared to transform from a vice president into a grief-stricken man.
"It's actually a very nice and elegant convergence of this area, the superior temporal gyrus, that appears to transform non-spatial information into spatial information," he said.
The apparent residual stress in the coating appears to transform from compressive to tensile in nature with increasing laser scan speed eventually contributing to delamination of the coating.
These differences appear to transform businesses and its affect CSR disclosure practices (Dawkins and Ngunjiri 2008).
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As you'll see through the eyes of a serviceman using bath salts, your friends may appear to transform to demons and zombies, you stand to wind up in emergency surgery -- or, possibly, Davy Jones' Locker -- and, even if you survive, the hallucinations and paranoid delusions can linger after the high is gone, for weeks.
