How to Use materialize in a Sentence

materialize

verb
Definition of materializenext
Synonyms for materializenext
  • Rain clouds materialized on the horizon.
  • A waiter suddenly materialized beside our table.
  • But, as was the case in 2022, the red wave didn't materialize.
    — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 14 Nov. 2023
  • This year in Phoenix, though, the heavy rains failed to materialize.
    — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Over the past few months, shiny metallic orbs have materialized cities around the world, from New York to Berlin to Tokyo.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But as the session wound down, a deal had failed to materialize.
    — Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Plans to solve the shortfall, though, have been slow to materialize.
    — Jason Mast, STAT, 23 July 2022
  • On May 30, the broadcast plans for many of their road games materialized.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
  • But with just days to go before the Olympic cauldron is lit, the tourists don’t seem to be materializing.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 25 July 2024
  • But by the end of the week, the council had yet to materialize, underscoring the deal’s fragility.
    — John Hudson, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Want more of fall 2022’s retro-to-wear trend? Leave it to Kendall Jenner to materialize one of the biggest trends of fall, the metallic moment.
    — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Whether the flood-the-zone approach will materialize remains to be seen.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2022
  • After about an hour, a rocky shoreline studded with terns and gulls materialized out of the heavy fog.
    — Maliya Ellis, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
  • The plot centers on an injured man who materializes at a down-on-its-heels monastery in the Central Valley.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Highs are probably around 70 (but could be lower if the rain is steady, or higher if the rain fails to materialize) with lows close to 60.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
  • But even if that deal fails to materialize, expect to see a shakeup soon.
    — Brett Knight, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Once on board the ship, though, those promises may not materialize.
    — USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024
  • If Abrams tanks sit on the bench while Leopard 2 tanks grab all the glory, that pressure could materialize.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Many of them have been tripped, yet no big downturn has materialized.
    — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Within minutes, a deep bruise materialized on the young man’s face where one of the guards had punched him, the second student witness said.
    — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
  • There has been chatter about getting a deal done for a merger, but things have yet to materialize.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
  • But that didn’t materialize in the results released this week, at least not for the bigger players.
    — Gina Heeb, WSJ, 21 July 2023
  • But fears of widespread violence on the day of the election did not materialize.
    — Ayesha Jalal, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2024
  • For a band that ruled if not the world then a good chunk of the ‘80s, this decade is materializing as Tears for Fears' most creatively fulfilling since.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
  • But a dusting of snow in the Northeast could materialize on Christmas Eve.
    — Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 22 Dec. 2024
  • But the results from those grants and talent pipelines could take years to materialize.
    — Steph Solis, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The news that Udoka was on their radar didn’t materialize like magic.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2022
  • In other words, drawn out once with the prospect of a groundbreaking deal that never materialized, a warier Kim may not be so quick to do so again.
    — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
  • The sale process allowed others to make a better bid, but Vice said that no such offers materialized.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 22 June 2023
  • When the rapper failed to materialize, Davis said, the group waiting for him left for its hotel, only to encounter Shakur and Knight talking to fans at a red light.
    — Joe Coscarelli, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023

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