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Definition of materialize:

  • (verb) come into being; become reality;

Sentence Examples:

The whirlwind subsided, but quickly materialized again.

The laugh was decidedly on Cooley, and his attempted flight of oratory did not materialize.

An Indian servant, who seemed to have materialized out of the night, had taken charge of her pony.

Had one of the fairy-tale heroes materialized, after all, and slipped out of magic coverts to walk with him?

They had anticipated certain words in greeting, a certain look out of bleary, shifty eyes, but neither materialized.

"We were not in the list of subscribers to the conditional fund for purchasing a certain veto which didn't materialize."

Now there was in his face and bearing the subtly but surely distinguishing quality that comes only with the strength a man gets when his fellows acknowledge his leadership, when he has seen the creations of his brain materialize in work accomplished.

Their lyrical poetry was not materialized.

Things created in the astral, tend to materialize on the physical plane.

In fact, the astral body is the pattern upon which the physical body is materialized.

Again the traditional bloodhound did not materialize.

This last was a little pleasantry that never materialized into the much-coveted and long abstained from delicacy.

It is owing to this conjunction of love for and cultivation of art, and the habit of materializing what we wish, that we have so many thoroughly successful interiors, which have been accomplished almost without aid from professional artists.

The most perennial and the best materialized of human ideas, the idea by which man reproduces himself by creating outside of himself the fictitious being called Property, that mental demon, drove its steel claws perpetually into his heart.

Was to incarnate an ideal to materialize it?

The voices I had heard and been annoyed by have materialized.

Our earlier romances, tinged with the magic radiance of youth, often fail to materialize.

After the men had assured themselves again and again that the horse and the man had apparently materialized from thin air exactly at the point of robbery, they again followed the tracks to the broad sheet of rock.

The wraith so materializes that I can describe it as accurately as I could describe you sitting next me.

Her plans, however, did not materialize, as the duke died and the treaty was annulled.

The shadow materialized as the figure moved forward into the room with a curiously lithe movement.

As the occasion offered and paid best, they were mind readers, clairvoyants, materializing mediums, test mediums.

The expected exhilaration of returning to the city of his birth did not materialize.

Just then the boat touched the wharf, and a sleepy man, a stranger to Priscilla, materialized and looked at her queerly.

The shock of my encounter, short-circuited his robe; he materialized in the starlight.

Obviously they were awaiting some development which though overdue had not materialized.

Then, as the turbines whirred, the shadow materialized, taking a golden solidity and wildness of outline.

Where hoped for results did not readily materialize, however, a measure of discouragement frequently set in.

And so he becomes the idealist of material things, while seeming to materialize spiritual things.

Come a big slump, and I failed to materialize at school.

And yet no stage was ever large enough to quite satisfy Wagner, and all the properties, if he had had his way, would have been works of Art, thought out in detail and materialized for the purpose by human hands.

It was near midnight of May 19th when the wraiths began materializing and the attack upon New York City began!

I will materialize with our giant projector, dominate all the region, and then we can barter with your authorities.

It penetrated into the borderland, reached the apparitions and forcibly materialized them!

A ghost could not materialize and kidnap a girl of flesh and blood.

None materialized into solidity.

Opposition has melted away, too, because all men now see that it will take a long time to "materialize" a race, millions of which hold neither houses nor railroads, nor bank stocks, nor factories, nor coal and gold mines.

The expected impeachment proceedings which were to follow this investigation did not materialize.

I could of course, materialize beside you, under your protective screen, and crush you in a vise.

The latter appeared to be gazing into the bush, and looking around sharply the surveyor started as a figure materialized out of the gloom where the moonlight streamed down between the trees not far away.

As I was going to say, meanwhile he went into his first laboratory and made the prompt discovery that nothing ever happens, that causes are set in motion ages and ages before they ever materialize into effects.

He wondered if in his endeavor to cheer up the despondent woman he had aroused hopes that might not materialize.

When we desire to feed, the city is disintegrated and materialized over a patch of vegetation which we eat.

His heralded May Day drive did not materialize.

Nothing could have been further from the ordinary stuffy back parlor of the 'materializing medium.'

Some sweet inmate of a harem might so have materialized, bruising her softness against the hard stair.

His exultation had not fully materialized.

A huge reptilian head had materialized out of nowhere and was hanging in air, peering about uncertainly.

At first this sudden materializing at my elbow had alarmed me, but I had long grown accustomed to it.

I need not add that J. did not bother to stay at home, that the big stick never materialized, that, though this was only the first of many fights between the two, Walter Crane was our friend to the end.

One of the newly-rich, you know, lately materialized out of the wild and woolly.

Before I could assimilate that, the seven deformed gas tanks materialized in the haze.

A great roan stallion, bridled but without a saddle, materialized.

Half a decade troopers seemed to materialize around him, and he heard the sergeant order him restrained.

This becomes thickened and materialized so that it is accessible to the sight.

Not only was the collar practically identical to the one worn by the skeleton that had been materialized in the egg back in the laboratory, but the skeleton itself was obviously that of one of the rat-men.

It is the experience of history that all religious bodies are purified by persecution, and materialized by peace.

All the teacher's thoughts, all his struggles, are materialized into forms, that they may be more readily brought home to the reader, that they may be more clearly realized by a primitive people as actual conflicts.

In the threats that were materializing with stunning swiftness.

More fliers materialized in the by now brighter blue of early morning.

The cage had materialized so abruptly that the leaping man collided with him before either man could avoid the other.

She was sure that the tobacco pouch and the handkerchief which had been "materialized" had been obtained in this way and, she argued, the best way to find out, was to remain silent as to John Harrison's call.

He picked up the document and became absorbed in meditation, which soon became materialized in the shape of a monologue.

Both prisoners had refused counsel, nor had any confession materialized, as Tom Redmond had prophesied.

They materialize as if out of thin air and disintegrate by the same route.

It was ready for the materialized religion that soon ensued.

The brilliant hopes were created by the magician Sellers, and they always promised that now he had got the trick, sure, and would effectively influence that materialized cowboy to call at the Towers before night.

A police officer materialized from the darkness and greeted them courteously.

It was as though he had materialized out of the darkness, an elderly imp foiled in his mischievous designs.

Lee stared at the apparition which swiftly materialized out of the ground haze at the plane's supersonic speed.

Even this effect was not the result of coquetry; it was a holy and loving sentiment materialized.

His route was devious as if he were perpetually dodging something that miraculously failed to materialize.

No one saw the figure that had materialized on the threshold to which all the backs of the yelping crowd were turned.

The fiend had promised to do all the talking, and on this occasion failed to materialize.

Presumed errors are materialized, and partial evils are magnified.

No immortals materialized, but the Chinese landscape garden was launched in considerable style.

However, plans to make extensive plantings of walnut and other valuable timber never materialized.

We also hear of his going forth into the woods to hunt a thought as a boy might hunt a butterfly, except that the thought had flown with him from home, and that his business was not so much to capture it as to materialize it and make it tangible.

Personification by the Medium, or Materialized Forms?

What if several prospects I had for jobs failed to materialize before the Chinese proposition did?

Fortunately the measles did not materialize, but Doris had missed seeing the meet and Dick had missed something else.

The owl came so silently and so eerily that, somehow, it seemed to have materialized out of thin air.

I had seen her materialized several times before, but always in shining white robes, and now she took on the same garment as that worn when the photograph was taken, probably to convince my wife of her identity.

The stampede back to work, so eagerly striven for by the employers, did not materialize.

Perhaps not one tenth of my gloomy forebodings ever materialized.

And yet once again, and in spite of the conditions which we regarded as utterly hopeless, the figure of a man appeared in less than ten minutes, materialized from head to foot, as he proved to us by showing us his lower limbs.

There are some persons, distinctly agreeable at first, whose absence materializes an unexpected aversion to their further acquaintance; others, whose company one has found tedious, leave a wholesome flavor, after all, behind them.

The result was that they enlarged and deepened the hole around the post, but the crowbar failed to materialize.

The drama lay in the book snugly enough; it was only necessary to dig it out and materialize it to the vision.

It linked on with Martin's previous visits, and the glimpses he had received of the materialized form of his visitor confirmed exactly the recognition, years before, of the photograph he had found in the cache which Martin had told him of.

Civic ambition was poorly seconded by builder's skill, and the plans of aspiring architects were crudely materialized.

Ralph realized that the variety and excitement had a stimulating influence on his mind, and that even if nothing materialized in the way of discoveries from the trip, the general effect on Van would be at least beneficial.

When the doubling of the personality is complete, and the dynamic hand more or less materialized, that of the medium contracts and rests heavily upon the controller, exactly at the moment that the phenomenon takes place.

The Shelter Tent was welcomed with corresponding warmth, as aforesaid, when its utility began to materialize.

Accustomed to think mainly of material interests, their character is materialized.

When the bombardment cleared, the threatened infantry assault did not materialize.

Our matrimonial objects don't materialize till Monday night.

It was estimated that at least two hundred shares would not materialize, being either lost or kept as souvenirs.

She had a way of materializing a stray thought, and flinging it back upon Stella as an incontrovertible fact.

The last century has been peculiarly an age of ideas and conservation of energy, materialized in practical embodiment as labor-saving inventions, often the product of a single mind, and partaking of the sacred quality of creation.