How to Use dramatize in a Sentence

dramatize

verb

• The book is dramatized in a new play.
• The movie dramatizes her early life.
• This tragedy dramatizes the need for improvements in highway safety.
• She cited a series of statistics to dramatize the seriousness of the problem.
• I know I tend to dramatize things but it really was awful.
• Both shows dramatize real events from the 1990s that made for great TV at the time, and both make for great TV in their own right.
  — David Klion, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2021
• So right from the get-go, our goal was to take the idea of infinity and dramatize it.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Mar. 2022
• The clock was created in 1945 to dramatize the atomic bomb’s danger to the world.
  — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
• That’s the latest twist in the Hollywood I.P. gambit: Help build the myth, then dramatize the fall.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2022
• So on Thursday, the committee sought to dramatize the stakes of its work.
  — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
• So Thursday, the committee sought to dramatize the stakes of its work.
  — Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Oct. 2022
• The film dramatizes the true crime story chronicled in author David Grann’s 2017 book of the same name.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
• As if to dramatize the entire point of the campaign, that year, Walton’s landlord forced her out of her Lemon Street rental.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2021
• The film dramatizes the tragic story of the Von Erich family.
  — Jake Coyle, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2023
• Romeo and Juliet has always been a play in which Shakespeare tries to dramatize love.
  — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 24 Apr. 2021
• What a strange and daring thing for the great and greatly missed Sondheim to dramatize, and for Friedman to forefront.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• That gives you the best of history to work with and the latitude to dramatize and make up your own storyline.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2022
• Michelle O’Neill’s accession to office as the leader of the largest party in the assembly dramatizes the end of that project.
  — Amy Cassidy, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
• Solo singers and grouped voices do not dramatize text but rather take it to other realms.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2021
• The unusual sci-fi novel dramatizes a story about an ant colony in a park near Paris.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
• There are many years left in Elizabeth's reign for the show to dramatize, and two more confirmed seasons to come on Netflix.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2021
• Somebody who wants the audience, who wants the approval, who needs to dramatize your life at every turn?
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2023
• But the interview wound up transcending all the Twitter jokes about how The Crown might attempt to dramatize it.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2021
• The only thing necessary to dramatize this — the only thing but also the hardest thing!
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2021
• Icke asks us to dramatize these issues for ourselves, at our own tables.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2021
• However, there’s the fact that people talk to themselves like this in real life, and then there’s trying to dramatize that fact.
  — Rose Maura Lorre, Vulture, 18 June 2021
• But as the song’s cruel ironies dramatize, God’s ways are as inscrutable as His purposes.
  — Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 19 June 2021
• But there’s more than one way to dramatize the public/private schisms of celebrity, and this way feels right for this director, this actress and this movie.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 3 Nov. 2021
• Izquierdo cautions those with round or square face shapes to go a bit longer, as shorter wolf cuts might overly dramatize the jawline.
  — Parizaad Khan Sethi, Allure, 30 June 2022
• That’s what made clear Doncic didn’t dramatize his pain Thursday.
  — Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024