How to Use materialize in a Sentence

materialize

verb
  • Rain clouds materialized on the horizon.
  • A waiter suddenly materialized beside our table.
  • There is a chance that a trade will not materialize.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Our cast just kind of materialized in front of us.
    Kennedy French, Variety, 13 May 2026
  • But that impact has not materialized yet, and the full blow has yet to land.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 30 July 2025
  • But as the session wound down, a deal had failed to materialize.
    Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • And when all was said and done their demands did not materialize.
    Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 27 Mar. 2026
  • So the pastor asked two of the largest men to sit near the door, but the threat didn’t materialize.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Many of them have been tripped, yet no big downturn has materialized.
    Courtenay Brown, Axios, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Some quick-build projects have been installed, but the team has not yet materialized.
    Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • This year in Phoenix, though, the heavy rains failed to materialize.
    Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Once on board the ship, though, those promises may not materialize.
    USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Prospects that a cease-fire agreement would materialize were not clear.
    New York Times, 19 May 2021
  • Plans to solve the shortfall, though, have been slow to materialize.
    Jason Mast, STAT, 23 July 2022
  • The fact that a deal hasn’t materialized yet is notable.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 23 June 2026
  • But even if that deal fails to materialize, expect to see a shakeup soon.
    Brett Knight, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • What if the star search doesn’t materialize?
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 7 May 2026
  • The show at Dia, in a way, is like one of my drawings materialized.
    Alex Bacon, Artforum, 28 Apr. 2026
  • There might be some kind of donor conference and all kinds of pledges, but will those materialize?
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
  • There's a lot of talk about that, about this monster tour that may happen and materialize.
    Marina Watts, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • That plan, thus far, has not materialized.
    ABC News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • That plan, thus far, has not materialized.
    Moriah Balingit, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
  • While that could be a longer-term issue, that didn’t appear to materialize much last year.
    Brett Owens, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Founders' wealth can seem to materialize overnight.
    Holly Eve, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • The Stars got their looks, yes, but a greasy goal from the blue paint never materialized.
    Pierre Lebrun, New York Times, 27 May 2025
  • Just then, Austin materializes out of thin air.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Once the trade failed to materialize, the Rays could not come close to adding the same type of impact.
    Ken Rosenthal, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 May 2026
  • Once the trade failed to materialize, the Rays could not come close to adding the same type of impact.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • Trump’s vision of gangs in the streets has materialized.
    Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2026
  • For two and a half games, a minute sample, no result materialized.
    Matt Kawahara, Houston Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2026

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