TRANSFORMATION 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 TRANSFORMATION
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transformation
 n.  change in form , appearance, nature, disposition, condition, or the like
Classic Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1  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
2  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
3  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
4  This transformation took place last night.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
5  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
6  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
7  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.
8  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.
9  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.
10  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.
11  She who has once been a woman, and ceased to be so, might at any moment become a woman again, if there were only the magic touch to effect the transformation.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
12  The minister's own will, and Hester's will, and the fate that grew between them, had wrought this transformation.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
13  And Levin, to turn the conversation, explained to Darya Alexandrovna the theory of cow-keeping, based on the principle that the cow is simply a machine for the transformation of food into milk, and so on.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 9
14  Rank led me to expect a splendid transformation.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
15  Now, fully revealed by the fire and candlelight, I was amazed, more than ever, to behold the transformation of Heathcliff.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  A startling cultural transformation occurred in post - war Britain.
2  The transformation from disused docks into city-centre cultural venue took three years.
3  In recent years, the movie industry has undergone a dramatic transformation.
4  The way we work has undergone a radical transformation in the past decade.
5  The way in which we work has undergone a complete transformation in the past decade.
6  He is not queasy about depicting mass violence, in some circumstances, as a legitimate instrument of social transformation.
7  To take it a step further, this transformation is also impacting the business world.
8  Television has transformed the size and social composition of the audience at great sporting occasions.
9  A smile transformed her usually impassive face.
10  The garden was transformed at great expense.
11  They transformed the wilderness into a garden.
12  The company has been transformed from a family business to a multi-million-pound operation.
13  Increased population has transformed the landscape.
14  The fight against a chemical storage site has transformed a normally sedate village into a battleground.
15  Her years in the capitol had transformed her into a cosmopolitan young woman highly aware of international affairs.