How to Use transpose in a Sentence

transpose

verb

• I must have accidentally transposed the numbers when I dialed his phone number.
• The phone numbers have two digits transposed and this is a mistake.
  — Konstantin Toropin, CNN, 30 Oct. 2019
• Don't transpose any numbers off your W-2 or other forms, as well.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 16 Apr. 2018
• The greater arteries connecting the heart to the rest of the body could be transposed.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 2 Feb. 2026
• Like that level of fandom has been kind of transposed on a larger scale to Riverdale.
  — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 16 May 2018
• Bulleh Shah transposes the framework of the lover and beloved to the self and the divine.
  — Arman Khan, Pitchfork, 1 June 2026
• Disney has tended to guard its oldest classics, wary of transposing them to the stage.
  — Matt Trueman, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2017
• Many works in the show feature photographs transposed onto the skin of the figures.
  — Eva Recinos, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• Some viewers may thrill at seeing gay love transposed into familiar tropes.
  — The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2023
• Sun Ra said to transpose them for every other instrument.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
• There is just something risky about taking real experience and transposing it to the plane of art.
  — Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
• If only one of them has transposed letters in a name, that's a pretty good batting averaging.
  — Charles Curtis, For The Win, 6 Feb. 2018
• The pattern pieces were transposed to a piece of flexible high-density foam, and were then cut out and assembled.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 20 June 2018
• And all of them rely upon (a) a willful misreading of the facts, and/or (b) transposing two things that sound the same but aren't.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2018
• How could a plot so particular to a European context be transposed to ours?
  — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
• Easier to transpose it into a key of prurience and wait for the whole thing to stroke itself into exhaustion.
  — Laurie Penny, Longreads, 18 Jan. 2018
• To transpose the look to your own closet, try searching for the elaborate silhouettes that Michele loves so much.
  — Lindsay Peoples, The Cut, 3 Aug. 2017
• This pairing of the card and the phone allows the user to transpose a picture of themselves (or their dog or anything else) onto the card.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2017
• Arnett, transposing the metaphor out of the horror genre, closes the distance between viewer and viewed.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2019
• The atmosphere of Mars would transpose the music to roughly G-sharp minor.
  — Trevor Cox, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2015
• The article also transposed the name of the Marple Township police chief.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 25 July 2023
• That includes confirming the address of someone who signed the petition but may have transposed some numbers.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• The caps-lock title and eff-you art work, in which the artist’s image is transposed onto a hand as a triumphant middle finger, overshoots the tone.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 11 June 2026
• The cast from Bram Stoker’s novel are transposed to space junkers, who come across the derelict spaceship Demeter.
  — Vulture, 13 Aug. 2023
• At the most fundamental level, a baby’s cry is the sound of human pain being transposed into human sound.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 12 June 2019
• This week’s contest — to transpose two letters in a word or phrase — has often been an option in our change-a-letter neologism contests over the years.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
• After the rule is published, EU member states will have one year to transpose the rules, followed by another year to adhere.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2022
• Initially, Baig created a timeline of the artist’s major life events and transposed her own life map onto Kahlo’s.
  — Dallas News, 2 Mar. 2023
• The book had too much exposition and dialog to be directly transposed into a film script, and so shortcut scenes had to be invented.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 8 Nov. 2023
• But if brevity is the soul of wit, then transposing your three-minute sensibility onto a feature-length film is the ultimate test of one’s comedic mettle.
  — Michael Nordine, Variety, 17 Nov. 2023