Thy courtiers metamorphose into soldiers; Thy gold transmute to iron; all thou hast, With resolute daring, venture for thy crown!
They grow by certain laws, like the tree's fruit-- No juggling chance can metamorphose them.
Can one single moment so completely metamorphose a human being?
But the old Neds and Nellies of the town, accustomed leisurely to transport their various family surreys, did not metamorphose into hackneys of such spirit and dash as filled Tess's dreams.
The caterpillars, which in this group are without hair, and have almost always a horn on the eleventh segment of the body, metamorphose themselves in the earth, without forming hard cocoons.
The caterpillars live and metamorphose themselves in portable cases, which they manufacture from the membranous portions of leaves, whose flesh alone they eat.
In Japan, as we learn from several stories in Mr. Mitford's Tales of Old Japan, people chiefly metamorphose themselves into foxes and badgers.
They refused, and he assumed the form of a bull, a lion, and a leopard as easily as the chiefs of the Abipones become tigers, or as the chiefs among the African Barotse and Balonda metamorphose themselves into lions and alligators.
The Thlinkeets think that their Shamans can metamorphose themselves into animals at pleasure; and a very old raven was pointed out to Mr. C.
Near Loanda, Livingstone found that a "chief may metamorphose himself into a lion, kill any one he choses, and then resume his proper form".
He was still feeling the quite absurd desire to find the word which should metamorphose the scene before him to its true conditions.
Frogs that metamorphose in late summer have little time to grow before hibernating, and still are small when they emerge in spring.
Nothing was in its place--nothing looked as it used to do--and she stood amazed at the disagreeable metamorphose an things had undergone.
The whole of this scene had been performed with such rapidity that poor Grizzy was not prepared for the sudden metamorphose of Nicky's pebble brooch into a set of painted thread-papers, and some vague alarms began to float through her brain.
In China the belief exists that foxes and wolves attain to an age of eight hundred years, and "when more than five hundred years old they are able to metamorphose themselves into beings shaped liked men.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "metamorphose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: change; commute; convert; make; revolutionize; transfigure; transform; translate; transpose
