Sentence examples for materialized like from inspiring English sources

In that window, I could hear the vastness of the valley — no sound marks materialized, like buoys bobbing on an empty ocean, to segment the sense of infinity.

Christine Ebersole materialized like a goddess formed out of the ectoplasm in screwball heaven at Wednesday's opening-night performance of her new show at the Café Carlyle.

Five minutes later "Stalker Sarah" was trending on Twitter, at which point teenage girls (and some of their parents) materialized like an invading army.

Rushing forward with a furious churn of arms and legs, Venus Williams materialized like a praying mantis to devour Hingis's effort with a swinging forehand volley.

Over the years, I've been to too many news conferences with a plan for a stadium that never materialized, like Walter O'Malley's vision of a Dodger ballpark in downtown Brooklyn before he absconded to Los Angeles with the franchise.

Women's voices, harp glissandos and orchestral strings or horns all materialized like clouds; when Matmos provided a beat, it was usually a throb or a pulsation, without sharp percussive attacks.

It was as if such simulations made Mr. Jackson vaguely materialize, like an ectoplasm at a séance.

Other measures were slow to materialize, like a cut in its the dividend.

And sometimes along with the names the faces would materialize, like mug shots.

The art was never easy to find, materializing like night blooms in the woodlands and graveyards of rural black communities.

On a stretch of the eastern fringe of downtown Johannesburg, the Maboneng Precinct (maboneng is Sotho for "place of light") materializes like a hipster mirage.