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Definition of materialize:

  • (verb) come into being; become reality;

Sentence Examples:

And yet those thoughts invaded her, became materialized within her, like some physical craving, thirst or hunger.

The effect was uncanny, as if the figure had materialized before her very eyes, out of clear air, as if one of those many shadows had taken on shape and substance while she looked.

For this end had Ireland been kept faithful and pure for centuries, just that she might be at last the witness to the spiritual in a materialized world.

Dick was always about to eat his shirt if some particular prophecy of his did not materialize.

Peter, in turn, looked down at them with a feeling that they had materialized out of nothing.

And thus there had materialized, and in other cases developed, grotesque and horrible Creatures, which now beset the humans of this world.

There are some people so evidently broadly and heartily of this world, that their coming into a room always materializes the conversation.

In her, belief did not bend to the strict rule of dogma; the religious sentiment did not materialize in the hope of a paradise, of a place of delights, where she was to meet her own again.

For one soldier with his gun appeared in the front room of the place, and another materialized just outside the door, likewise with his gun.

Many of them easily acquired a dog and a gun and were disposed to devote their time to the chase until the assistance in the form of mules and land expected from the government materialized.

At first, however, the promised success did not materialize, and it was not until after many weeks of waiting that the tide turned.

"You row like an ox," and John, who had been reckoned an uncommon useful stroke, felt that a compliment was intended if not quite materialized.

It was in the learned, half-pagan sixteenth and the polished seventeenth century, that this materialized theology became most offensive.

Rather heavy resistance was encountered on the extreme right, and the turning movement did not materialize as rapidly as had been hoped.

Man is obliged to materialize all: the sensations through the voice, the sentiments through gesture, the ideas through speech.

A great religious cult has sprung into existence which makes a leading doctrine of this ability to materialize the things which one desires, and to deny out of existence undesirable things.

And so it happened, that, as the weary days passed and Lane's brigade did not materialize, every grievance that loomed up before them took the shape of a disappointed longing for home.

They never did materialize as a matter of fact; but the officers did duty, nevertheless, and were regularly mustered out of the service in 1863.

For the power of manners an aristocratic class, whether materialized or not, will always, from its circumstances, have a strong sense.

Our religion has materialized itself in the fact, in the supposed fact; it has attached its emotion to the fact, and how the fact is failing it.

As much as they were the past, they materialized through distant, sealed corridors to haunt him.

Major Hunter was Western in his sympathies and coincided with my views, the Senator was won over from the enterprise, and the project failed to materialize.

About the last of January we had another little battle scare, but it failed to materialize.

The "impossible story" has become true, and the vision that the enthusiastic young hero and heroine dream has materialized into a lovely reality.

He had already added to the portions of the elder women and was bestowing his donations upon the young mother, when suddenly the shadow materialized and whisked past him.

As the fear materialized in thought, he was filled with a dread such as he had seldom experienced.

When the novelty is past, we find to our cost that instead of realizing an idea, we have only materialized and brought down a fine vision to the standard of flesh and blood.

The nomination of Charles Francis Adams was to the rank and file and to the party managers a disappointment, and the enthusiasm that he was expected to arouse was not materialized.

I am glad he is, but imagine what a tragedy failed to materialize because two men were awkward with the pistol.

It is as if our thoughts were gradually materialized by the action of the mind; as if, by the act of thinking, we projected them.

Formerly the law was in a garment of light, but in consequence of sin, the law became materialized in a garment of skin, in the same proportion as man became materialized in a body of flesh.

"I've called about this check," he said, when that official materialized, handing the slip of paper to him.

Wheeling the team he drove back the way he came, and, when a dusky object materialized out of the shadows beneath the birches, swung the horses right across the trail.

And while he still stood peering into the darkness into which she had merged, she suddenly materialized again and was by his side.

Curbed and somewhat re-modelled, she materialized and, while he dealt strictly with her, writing was possible.

In her surprise over the failure of this climax to materialize, she almost neglected to make her escape before he discovered her there.

It is a logical process materialized, with pleasures and pains that fall, in most cases, without the slightest reference to moral desert.

The word lives, it is true, but often the word must be materialized by action so that its meaning is clear.

The mental demand must be directed by every power of the mind and every possible element should be used to make the demand materialize.

The mental demand projects itself and causes to materialize the conditions and opportunities needed to accomplish the purpose.

It is our desires that keep stirring us up to action, and they will strengthen and broaden you if you make them materialize.

If you fully grasp mentally the thought of success and hold it in mind each day, you gradually make a pattern or mold which in time will materialize.

Be careful of your desires, make a mental picture of what you want and set your will to this until it materializes.

Presently another and yet another materialized out of the blue, growing larger as they fell down to the level of their fellow.

It is his effort to avoid materializing the mind that forces him to hold the position which he does.

Then the music ceased, and they were swept into a chattering group, out of which presently materialized another partner to claim Betty.

As a matter of fact, he came through an unnoticed door at the back, but he might as well have materialized from the thin air for the start that he gave me.

The reality had materialized the echoes she had often dimly felt from that night of long ago.

Here I shall stay until that surplus materializes; and you know in our country we have neither coal nor oil nor iron.

As it melted and the light grew again, I became aware that something was materializing, or had appeared on the point of the rock above us.

She was a chemist's daughter, and he was the humble assistant, long before the Pill materialized, so she refused him, and married a dashing doctor.

Until he could assure her that the spectral tenants had received notice to quit, and that there was no danger of manifestations and materializing, she refused to be married at all.

From out of our materialized daily lives we may rise at any moment, if we will, to ideal and spiritual things.

Both valleys are shown on the maps as occupied by rivers, but the rivers materialize only after heavy rains; at all other times there is only a dry, sandy channel.

Raymond still had moments when he believed that the girl would materialize in his own safeguarded world.

And just think how melancholy we were this morning, you and I, looking out of that window, and trying to materialize cooks.

The little creature, in some subtle way, seemed to have "found him out"; she became, though he would not admit it, a materialized conscience to him.

Such conservatives probably have prevented many improvements from materializing, and probably they have also saved the world from many futile creations which would only have wasted time and material.

I carefully avoided knowing your name and social position, for I feared to bring you down from the ideal and materialize you.

His eyes were fixed on the boat as he considered these things, and suddenly, as if materialized from nowhere, Cayley was standing by the boat.

The weeks had flown from May to late July and father's plans were beginning to be materialized.

A full side of beef materialized against his palm, almost breaking his arm before he could snap it out of the way.

A man appeared from nowhere, with the air of having suddenly materialized out of the atmosphere.

Always her pictures had materialized sooner or later, since she was a little girl, and had first begun painting them with her mind, on a golden background.

Mental action is necessary, but only through trained muscular action can the mental action materialize in a finished performance.

Thus was he found by Peter Blood, who seemed to his troubled vision to materialize suddenly before him.

Richter trotted out a son-in-law of John Wanamaker, but he failed to materialize with his money.

Almost on the instant the curtain hanging in the doorway at the side of the desk was drawn aside and a small, brown feminine hand materialized.

A trusted man, in whom they had placed a great deal of confidence, had failed to materialize.

Shrieked Lizzie as the dark shape of a man appeared suddenly outside the window, as if materialized from the air.

In each man there dwells a tyrant who creates for him a deity materialized out of these factors of ignorance and fear.

The materializing was done through sliding panels in the walls, while the believers sat holding hands about the opposite side of a table, and loudly singing sacred hymns.

There are hundreds of "materializing mediums" doing business in this country, who are swelling a good-sized bank account.

The form turned toward me, saying: "My son, this is a great pleasure to us, but we must not long remain, as it is our first attempt at materializing."

The table was placed across the cabinet door, not to lay the instruments on, but to be very much in the way should anyone make a rush and "grab" for the materialized forms.

He came back filled with enthusiasm and overflowing with ideas and plans that a single lifetime could not materialize.

The kittens were still going on, but owing to some failure in the developing fluid, they were not materialized.

The topic was discussed for many weeks, the proposed trip having been scheduled and cancelled several times before a convoy finally materialized.

The little ghostly wedges which had been placed within the bricks of the arch at the foot of Fifth Avenue began materializing; turning solid.

They must hear bells rung, see ghostly hands waved, and some of them demand a materialized control.

As more and more power was turned into the machine, they saw the man materialize out of thin air.

The errands for the neighbors had not materialized to swell his income, nor had other umbrella days followed the first one.

And as I took my first step, there materialized suddenly out of the thin and ill-smelling air, the figures of perhaps a dozen monstrous creatures.

A score or more of the strange beings had suddenly materialized but a few yards away, and they were closing in on us swiftly.

As he did so, he saw a creature materialize in the air of the vessel and fall to the floor with a crash as he threw on the power.

I could materialize as a man of metal, able to stand up under this acceleration, and do you to death.

I could even, by a sufficient expenditure of mental energy, materialize a planet around your ship and crush it.

Assuming the more serious outcome materializes, there will be no further danger for those who operate; I shall have learned all that it is necessary to know.

They knew it must be somewhere near, and feared that at any second it might materialize before them with its deadly rays.

He saw that clouds still obscured the sky, but at least it was not raining, and there seemed a fair chance that the anticipated renewal of the storm would not materialize.

It will then, however, he also less dangerous, as unless it can find a suitable medium it will be unable to materialize fully.

Their venture was probably not a particularly profitable one, for the rapid growth they had expected did not materialize.

His promises did not materialize, and our prisoner here appealed to him again and again, for he was destitute.

When they talked of her husband, of the old house, the old days, she felt herself coming back, materializing gradually again, out of the past.

Many a man has followed the best of advice for a time, and has become discouraged because the promised results did not materialize.

In an instant you will be dissolved into elemental atoms and carried on a beam of force to the receiving focus where you will again be materialized.

Presently he conceived a resentment toward the agent for bringing him down there under false pretences of daring deeds to be done, that never materialized.

This same young man gave me the most convincing demonstrations of materialized forms I have ever seen.

Shortly after this the psychic broke up the circle, saying that, as conditions were favorable, he would try to produce materialized forms.

Highly speculative as this project was, it might have materialized if Serbs and Greeks were willing to pay the price.