TRANSMUTATION in a Sentence

Learn TRANSMUTATION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for TRANSMUTATION, such as:

1. We can transmute water power into electrical power.
2. He was unable to transmute his dreams into actualities.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRANSMUTATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
transmutation
 n.  (physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment)
 n.  an act that changes the form or character or substance of something
Classic Sentence:
1  It is more than progress; it is transmutation.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—PRESENT PROGRESS
2  One day, as she inspected this drawer, I observed that the playthings and trinkets which recently formed its contents were transmuted into bits of folded paper.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
Example Sentence:
1  He was unable to transmute his dreams into actualities.
2  We can transmute water power into electrical power.