Example sentences for: metamorphoses

How can you use “metamorphoses” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The word colophon has undergone several metamorphoses since its earliest appearance in the 17th century: it originally referred to the inscription at the end of a book identifying its basic bibliographic information, that is, title, author, subject, publisher, date and place of publication, in other words, the information today found on the title page.

  • According to the textbooks, value-added is "the amount of value added to a product by each stage of its production"--in other words, the amount of value added as wood metamorphoses from tree to lumber to house, or as oil is refined from its captured state into petrochemicals, and thence, perhaps, into plastic.

  • Firmage recounts the development of each letter from its first protoplastic attestation on through its often protean metamorphoses over the millennia.

  • Nomenclature has tended to parallel the physical metamorphoses of Santa Fe.

  • As Ovid wrote in Metamorphoses in the first century, Hera says of herself, "Great indeed are my achievements, and mighty my strength."


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