How to Use italicize in a Sentence

italicize

verb

• The five songs that saw a decrease in streaming totals are italicized.
  — Xander Zellner, Billboard, 4 Sep. 2019
• But the old energy is still there, the bucking head movements and the lunging, italicized delivery.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2018
• With the savage ironies of the Rondo-Burlesque, Salonen saw no need to italicize the bitter humor that Mahler makes perfectly clear on the page.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2018
• Davis wrote in his report, italicizing the words for emphasis.
  — Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2019
• In one, a creamy pale yellow, the vessels appear slightly italicized by Wagner's oblique angle of view.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• The c is lower-case and italicized, as per the scientific notation for quickly light can move in a vacuum.
  — Laura Hudson, The Verge, 19 May 2018
• The droplets visually italicize Williams’s wheelbarrow, bringing a lowly piece of hardware to the foreground.
  — Danny Heitman, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
• At times, her approach can be a tad too emphatic, the singer italicizing seemingly very gesture.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• The finale had power aplenty, but delicacy, too, with none of the hell-for-leather histrionics that conductors often use to italicize the young Beethoven's sense of derring-do and adventure.
  — Terry Blain Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
• The juxtaposition of death with spring lushness italicizes the ordinariness of life cycles.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 6 May 2017
• Below, find a full list of nominees in each category, with winners signified by an asterisk (*) and italicized boldface.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• Hosted by actor Boris Kodjoe, the event italicized the contributions Black women have made in film and television — particularly this year, but also across eras and generations.
  — Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2023
• The coronavirus crisis has italicized the horrifying costs (measured in actual deaths) of the president’s contempt for science and expertise and the government agencies meant to handle such emergencies.
  — Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 5 May 2020
• Graff’s usually spare background information is italicized.
  — Lucinda Robb, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024