How to Use materialize in a Sentence

materialize

verb

• Rain clouds materialized on the horizon.
• A waiter suddenly materialized beside our table.
• But, as was the case in 2022, the red wave didn't materialize.
  — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 14 Nov. 2023
• Over the past few months, shiny metallic orbs have materialized cities around the world, from New York to Berlin to Tokyo.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 3 Aug. 2023
• But as the session wound down, a deal had failed to materialize.
  — Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• But by the end of the week, the council had yet to materialize, underscoring the deal’s fragility.
  — John Hudson, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
• After about an hour, a rocky shoreline studded with terns and gulls materialized out of the heavy fog.
  — Maliya Ellis, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
• The plot centers on an injured man who materializes at a down-on-its-heels monastery in the Central Valley.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
• Highs are probably around 70 (but could be lower if the rain is steady, or higher if the rain fails to materialize) with lows close to 60.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
• But that didn’t materialize in the results released this week, at least not for the bigger players.
  — Gina Heeb, WSJ, 21 July 2023
• But fears of widespread violence on the day of the election did not materialize.
  — Ayesha Jalal, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2024
• The sale process allowed others to make a better bid, but Vice said that no such offers materialized.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 22 June 2023
• When the rapper failed to materialize, Davis said, the group waiting for him left for its hotel, only to encounter Shakur and Knight talking to fans at a red light.
  — Joe Coscarelli, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• This offseason, the pitcher’s hopes of signing with an MLB team have again failed to materialize.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• That failed to materialize, a factor that weighed on oil prices earlier this year.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 28 July 2023
• Getting to this moment overjoyed the 51-year-old Avila waiting more than a decade for the center to materialize.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
• In the years since, she’s discussed the follow-up album Masochism, which never materialized.
  — Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 9 Nov. 2023
• But funding for the full statue didn’t materialize for years.
  — Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
• That deal never materialized, which helped Meledandri land the property and give Mario a 1-Up.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 4 Apr. 2023
• The revolt Prigozhin may have hoped for in Moscow failed to materialize, the official noted.
  — Amy B Wang, Washington Post, 25 June 2023
• The Nets banked on short-term success that never materialized.
  — Hayden Bird, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• Before those plans could materialize, the girl was killed in an Israeli strike, days after her mother.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
• Vickers said there has been a lot of interest in the last parcel in recent years, but nothing has materialized.
  — Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2023
• On the third night of my camel trek from Jaisalmer, India, figures from the desert materialized in our camp: an old man swaddled in shawls and a boy clutching a plastic oil canister.
  — James Stewart, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2023
• Wisconsin Watch The ensnared fish seemed to materialize from the water.
  — Bennet Goldstein, Journal Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2023
• Lê’s approach materialized on a trip to Vietnam in 1994, the same year that the Clinton Administration lifted a trade embargo that had been in place since the end of the war.
  — Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• Starter Jeff Weaver waited and waited for a long-term deal that never materialized and settled for one-year contracts.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• The economic consequences materialized in the 1980s, with growth markedly slowing once the country had made the easy gains in catching up to more advanced economies.
  — Barry Eichengreen, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• The director, Thomas Kail, and his choreographer, Steven Hoggett, start the show by making the ensemble seem to materialize from the blackness.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2023
• If Bellinger’s contract demands drop as his market fails to materialize, the Mets could reignite their interest.
  — Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024