How to Use transmogrify in a Sentence

transmogrify

verb
  • The Sphere transmogrified into an enormous American-flag beach ball.
    Paige Williams, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The Lees’ kitchen performs some kind of alchemy that transmogrifies straightforward ingredients like cabbage into minor miracles.
    Henri Hollis, AJC.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Ne Zha’s mother is transmogrified into a magical pill at the hands of the story’s villainous mastermind, the immortal Wuliang.
    Derek Robertson, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • During the negotiations between Obama and Raúl, there was still the idea that somehow parts of the revolution—its socialist project—could be saved, and that Cuba could somehow transmogrify into a fairer, more modern place with a social cradle.
    Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Unlike conventional corn syrup, a form of glucose derived from starch that has been around for over 200 years, high fructose corn syrup wasn’t developed until after World War II, when scientists in Japan began tinkering with the grain, hoping to transmogrify this staple into new products.
    Stephen Mihm, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025

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