How to Use metamorphosis in a Sentence

metamorphosis

noun
  • We have watched her metamorphosis from a shy schoolgirl into a self-confident businesswoman.
  • The class learned about how caterpillars undergo metamorphosis to become butterflies.
  • The government has undergone political metamorphosis since his election.
  • The sight made her think about the process of metamorphosis.
    Aaron Carnes, sacbee, 10 May 2018
  • The metamorphosis brought by the burst of the monsoon is profound.
    The Economist, 27 June 2019
  • Take a look back at the square's metamorphosis in this gallery.
    Jordan Kellogg, The Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The industry was at the tail end of a lengthy metamorphosis.
    Russell Gold, WSJ, 22 June 2019
  • The sculpture is too long for a viewer to take in its slow metamorphosis all at once.
    Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The album is about my metamorphosis as a human and an artist.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2020
  • This time, there was a new force urging on the metamorphosis.
    Phred Dvorak, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2020
  • To touch a face that is not face but avatar, shield, metamorphosis.
    Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Truman and his team have now learned how much metamorphosis reshuffles parts of the brain.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
  • Like the club, the Monarch Project has made its own metamorphosis.
    Jessica Siles, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Nov. 2021
  • But the metamorphosis of her physical self changed the way the world related to her.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The new regime deserves time to see if this metamorphosis will result in a big payoff.
    Star Tribune, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Oudolf picked up on this point, saying that the metamorphosis here is all the starker for its setting.
    Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Sometimes the scripted metamorphosis takes just a few years.
    Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 26 Sep. 2017
  • This is just one of the many metamorphoses that the industry will experience.
    Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • Of all the changes in my South, perhaps the hardest to fit inside my head is the metamorphosis of the pickup truck.
    Southern Living, 1 May 2017
  • Make new goals and feel deeply into your metamorphosis.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Of all the changes in my South, perhaps the hardest to fit inside my head is the metamorphosis of the pickup truck.
    Southern Living, 15 Dec. 2016
  • Thus did climatic change set in motion the first of the South’s series of metamorphoses.
    Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 26 June 2023
  • Meanwhile, across the lagoon, the metamorphosis from jungle to garden still has a long way to go.
    Jay Cheshes, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Devices that measure the changing shape of the volcano have been recording its metamorphosis for two decades.
    New York Times, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Aldridge’s teammates are glad to see their big man’s metamorphosis.
    Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 7 Jan. 2020
  • After three weeks of metamorphosis, the moths were about to mate and lay eggs — a stage of the life cycle that coincided with the end of school.
    Vanessa Hua, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2019
  • Even the idea of a school team has undergone a radical metamorphosis in some cases.
    New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The results in Iowa, long a swing state, reflect the metamorphosis of both parties.
    Janet Hook, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2018
  • Even that has been part of his early-season metamorphosis.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 31 Oct. 2019
  • No aspiration to some metamorphosis that would erect a wall of terror between her and me!
    Marie Ndiaye, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023

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