TRANSFORM in a Sentence

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He is not queasy about depicting mass violence, in some circumstances, as a legitimate instrument of social transformation.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRANSFORM
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transform
 v.  change in outward structure or looks; convert
Classic Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1  She was generally a mistress of the art of dressing well without great expense, and before leaving Moscow she had given her dressmaker three dresses to transform.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 33
2  She hoped that this interview would transform her position, and save her.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 22
3  Prefects of the police do not deem it possible that a cat can transform itself into a lion; that does happen, however, and in that lies the miracle wrought by the populace of Paris.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA'S
4  They do not eat men, they crunch them; or, magicians that they are, they transform them into oysters and swallow them.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH
5  "Very good, sir," answered Roach, wondering if he was to receive instructions to fell all the oaks in the park or to transform the orchards into water-gardens.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  It was more than a transformation; it was a transfiguration.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
7  However, this quarter, which had a superannuated rather than an antique air, was tending even then to transformation.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
8  People were undergoing a transformation, almost without being conscious of it, through the movement of the age.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
9  This transformation took place last night.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
10  This is the will of that mysterious creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
11  Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this centenarian as erect as a young man.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER
12  He was now, as we have said, three-and-thirty years of age, and his fourteen years' imprisonment had produced a great transformation in his appearance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22. The Smugglers.
13  As to Franz a strange transformation had taken place in him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
14  Five minutes had sufficed to make a complete transformation in his appearance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 85. The Journey.
15  We have seen how quietly Mademoiselle Danglars and Mademoiselle d'Armilly accomplished their transformation and flight; the fact being that every one was too much occupied in his or her own affairs to think of theirs.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 99. The Law.
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  He wants to transform into a monster.
2  Tiptoeing like a ballerina is the power of art to transform us.
3  A fresh coat of paint can transform a room.
4  A startling cultural transformation occurred in post - war Britain.
5  The transformation from disused docks into city-centre cultural venue took three years.
6  In recent years, the movie industry has undergone a dramatic transformation.
7  The way we work has undergone a radical transformation in the past decade.
8  The way in which we work has undergone a complete transformation in the past decade.
9  He is not queasy about depicting mass violence, in some circumstances, as a legitimate instrument of social transformation.
10  To take it a step further, this transformation is also impacting the business world.
11  Television has transformed the size and social composition of the audience at great sporting occasions.
12  A smile transformed her usually impassive face.
13  The garden was transformed at great expense.
14  They transformed the wilderness into a garden.
15  The company has been transformed from a family business to a multi-million-pound operation.