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How to use metamorphosis in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Metamorphosis means a transformation, such as one performed by magic. Example: “The station has been refurbished both at ground level and below ground, where the wide, fluorescently lit platforms are an almost unrecognisable metamorphosis of the dingy, reeking Low Level of old.”

Examples of metamorphosis by meaning

nounA noticeable change in character, appearance, function, or condition.

  • The station has been refurbished both at ground level and below ground, where the wide, fluorescently lit platforms are an almost unrecognisable metamorphosis of the dingy, reeking Low Level of old.1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 713
  • Not since a journalist morphed into Al Pacino in The Devil’s Advocate has a metamorphosis been so jarring.2017 September 20, Sophie Gilbert, “The Good Place Is Still TV Heaven”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2018

More sentences with metamorphosis

  • After metamorphosis, neither the neurotroch nor the aTUB-LIR underlying the neurotroch is visible.2015 July 11, Néva P Meyer et al., “Nervous system development in lecithotrophic larval and juvenile stages of the annelid Capitella…. From the entry neurotroch
  • The neurites underlying the prototroch are lost after metamorphosis, suggesting that these neurons serve a larval function.2015 July 11, Néva P Meyer et al., “Nervous system development in lecithotrophic larval and juvenile stages of the annelid Capitella…. From the entry prototroch
  • The question is this: when a word is undergoing a metamorphosis, where is its power?2011 July 18, Pete Langman, “Chavs, sluts and the war of words”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2022. From the entry Schrödinger's
  • Male scale insects are mostly haploid, undergo an unusual metamorphosis, and feed only in the first two instars.2005, Hans G. Schabel, Forest Entomology in East Africa: Forest Insects of Tanzania, page 93. From the entry scale insect
  • This downward metamorphosis serves to justify the low place of the antimasquers in the social scheme and to underscore how limited their social contribution must be.2012, Gail Kern Paster, The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare, page 133. From the entry antimasquer
  • Apoptosis is routine in developmental processes such as the removal of webbing between fingers in humans, the loss of tadpole tails in amphibians, and insect metamorphosis.2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 74. From the entry apoptosis
  • This is to say that waters that are turbulent and torrential are not always transsexualized as males via the rhetorical strategies of birth (The Columbiad) or metamorphosis (The Johnstown Flood).2009, Cecelia Tichi, Embodiment of a Nation: Human Form in American Places, →ISBN, page 204. From the entry transsexualize
  • I saw a dust-storm at Kueichow which lasted for seven hours, burying some hovels and much agricultural country, and even producing a metamorphosis of the rocky bed of the Yangtze.[1900, Isabella L. Bird, The Yangtze Valley and Beyond, volume 1, →OCLC, →OL, page 9. From the entry duststorm

Meaning of metamorphosis

  1. noun A transformation, such as one performed by magic.
  2. noun A noticeable change in character, appearance, function, or condition.
  3. noun A change in the form and often habits of an animal after the embryonic stage during normal development (e.g. the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly or a tadpole into a frog).

Full definition of metamorphosis

Questions about metamorphosis in a sentence

How do you use metamorphosis in a sentence?
Metamorphosis is used as a noun. For example: “The station has been refurbished both at ground level and below ground, where the wide, fluorescently lit platforms are an almost unrecognisable metamorphosis of the dingy, reeking Low Level of old.”
What is a short sentence with metamorphosis?
“After metamorphosis, neither the neurotroch nor the aTUB-LIR underlying the neurotroch is visible.”
What does metamorphosis mean?
Metamorphosis means a transformation, such as one performed by magic.

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