Sentence examples for were transmuted from inspiring English sources
verb
To change, transform or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another.
- The alchemists tried to transmute base metals to gold.
In Franklin's case, the pain and heartbreak were transmuted into song, sometimes expressed with an almost casual, but paradoxically powerful, delivery that belied the traumas of her life.
The anxiety, confusion, and doubt that haunted her were transmuted into verses of great power and pathos borne on flashes of incisive wit.
The speed, precision and deliberation that had served her as a champion ice skater in her youth were transmuted into paint; motion and emotion became one.
In the influential assessment of Richard Hofstadter, Prohibition was a farce, "a means by which the reforming energies of the country were transmuted into mere peevishness".
In the influential assessment of Richard Hofstadter, Prohibition was a farce, "a means by which the reforming energies of the country were transmuted into mere peevishness". Indeed, Prohibition is remembered chiefly for its failure to achieve its aims.
With access to Yates's wives, friends, daughters and colleagues, to his manuscripts and correspondence, and to much evidence of how Yates's real experiences were transmuted into keenly autobiographical fiction, Mr. Bailey chooses a warts-and-more-warts version.
"Nice — but I thought we were transmuting base metal into gold".
— had been transmuted into gaudy sex symbols.
Here, sex is transmuted into jokes.
The Tyrant Lizard King was transmuted into Barney.
The young man's recollection now has been transmuted into the shooting in Act I.
