How to Use materialize in a Sentence

materialize

verb

• Rain clouds materialized on the horizon.
• A waiter suddenly materialized beside our table.
• 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
• But, as was the case in 2022, the red wave didn't materialize.
  — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 14 Nov. 2023
• Ricky Vanasco is a sinewy 6-4 who just seems to materialize in front of you with the grace of a big cat.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2021
• This year in Phoenix, though, the heavy rains failed to materialize.
  — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The Stars got their looks, yes, but a greasy goal from the blue paint never materialized.
  — Pierre Lebrun, New York Times, 27 May 2025
• But as the session wound down, a deal had failed to materialize.
  — Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• And new pledges could materialize by the time leaders reconvene near the end of the year in Egypt.
  — Washington Post, 2 May 2022
• The plants shriveled in the summer heat, and the monsoon rains failed to materialize.
  — Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2021
• Plans to solve the shortfall, though, have been slow to materialize.
  — Jason Mast, STAT, 23 July 2022
• On May 30, the broadcast plans for many of their road games materialized.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
• But with just days to go before the Olympic cauldron is lit, the tourists don’t seem to be materializing.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 25 July 2024
• 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
• Want more of fall 2022’s retro-to-wear trend? Leave it to Kendall Jenner to materialize one of the biggest trends of fall, the metallic moment.
  — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2022
• Whether the flood-the-zone approach will materialize remains to be seen.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2022
• Many of the predictions about AI killing jobs have — at least so far — failed to materialize.
  — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 7 Jan. 2025
• The day-to-day trips that are the lifeblood of many border businesses had yet to materialize on Monday.
  — David Gutman, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2021
• 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
• To be sure, the benefits took a long time to materialize.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
• Then John Kreese materializes on the deck, kicks a now-dead Dennis down the stairs, and blows up the entire yacht, killing both Silver and himself.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
• The signal caller would also need to waive his no-trade clause for a trade to even materialize.
  — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
• 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 even if that deal fails to materialize, expect to see a shakeup soon.
  — Brett Knight, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
• While that could be a longer-term issue, that didn’t appear to materialize much last year.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
• Once on board the ship, though, those promises may not materialize.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024
• Astrov said that last year, because of this front-loading in the first few months, many predicted a catastrophic budget deficit for the full year, which did not materialize.
  — Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
• Still, experts caution that President Donald Trump’s tariffs may take a few months to materialize in the data.
  — Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025