How to Use metamorphosis in a Sentence

metamorphosis

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  • 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
  • Like the club, the Monarch Project has made its own metamorphosis.
    — Jessica Siles, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • To touch a face that is not face but avatar, shield, metamorphosis.
    — Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The industry was at the tail end of a lengthy metamorphosis.
    — Russell Gold, WSJ, 22 June 2019
  • 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
  • This time, there was a new force urging on the metamorphosis.
    — Phred Dvorak, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Truman and his team have now learned how much metamorphosis reshuffles parts of the brain.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
  • 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
  • What many of the artists share with Clark is an interest in metamorphosis.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The results in Iowa, long a swing state, reflect the metamorphosis of both parties.
    — Janet Hook, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2018
  • Ninety years is a long time to be in a place and to have seen its bloody and at times glorious metamorphosis.
    — Danté Stewart, TIME, 19 July 2024
  • Oudolf picked up on this point, saying that the metamorphosis here is all the starker for its setting.
    — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2019
  • But the metamorphosis of her physical self changed the way the world related to her.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2021
  • For others, shedding the space where a life fell apart felt like a metamorphosis.
    — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • And to hear some of his teammates tell it on Saturday, the metamorphosis began with a trip to the barber.
    — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Meanwhile, across the lagoon, the metamorphosis from jungle to garden still has a long way to go.
    — Jay Cheshes, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • The new regime deserves time to see if this metamorphosis will result in a big payoff.
    — Star Tribune, 21 Dec. 2020
  • The tale of Castle Park’s girls lacrosse metamorphosis is told in layers.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2024
  • Many Arab-Americans who, like me, were born and raised in the United States also went through the same metamorphosis.
    — Dean Obeidallah, CNN, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Jones likens his metamorphosis to that of Gwen Verdon, who was thrust into dance classes while struggling with rickets as a child.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The makeover was the first domino in a pop culture-disrupting series of events and a full metamorphosis for Cyrus, who still wouldn’t reach legal drinking age until November 2013.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2024

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