How to Use legitimize in a Sentence

legitimize

verb

• The Missing, by looking that pain dead in the eye, legitimizes it.
  — Julie Muncy, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2018
• And then the czar stuff, is that at every point Putin has tried to legitimize himself.
  — CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
• Allure legitimized it with a fun video, and Cosmo cosigned the trend as well.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 24 Sep. 2024
• The concert struck a blow for racial progress and helped legitimize jazz as a music with deep roots and inarguable worth.
  — John Edward Hasse, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2018
• Today, the rules of the game remain mostly the same, as does the ethos, but the league is expanding, legitimizing.
  — Ben Baskin, SI.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• But others say that this would legitimize the stronger party.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
• The victory vaulted the Spartans into the top 150 of the NET rankings and helped legitimize them to the public.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2022
• That was the lightning bolt that legitimized this franchise.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 4 May 2020
• A Final Four run might legitimize him to outsiders, but this program has been on top for a long time.
  — Lindsay Schnell, SI.com, 29 June 2017
• Trump is being urged not to legitimize Kim by agreeing to talks in North Korea.
  — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2018
• Some local politicians legitimized the group through the 1980s by sucking up to ben Yahweh.
  — Jose Lambiet, miamiherald, 7 May 2018
• The families didn’t need to hear the news to legitimize their late fathers and grandfathers.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2020
• Bottom line here is this: Utah no longer has to play to legitimize its entire program.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Dec. 2022
• And in the minds of millions, including some of those who sacked the Capitol, those outlets helped legitimize the groundless fraud claims.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2021
• Part of me still wanted Dylan to legitimize my creative work, or at least my choice to pursue it.
  — Sam Sussman, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
• On the path Since last year, Figueroa-Figueroa had been on a path to legitimizing her immigration status and right to work.
  — Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2019
• Coins are small vessels through which a state can legitimize itself.
  — Gail Fletcher, National Geographic, 28 June 2019
• And someone could start a revolution with the materials at hand, one that is sort of legitimized by the gloss that the sphere gives.
  — Bridget Read, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2018
• Others were concerned that the restaurant's name and partnership with Whole Foods legitimizes the term.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 29 Apr. 2018
• That three-game winning streak that seemed to legitimize this year’s squad as a fun upstart playoff contender?
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024
• The president will sit at a table legitimizing the regime.
  — Fox News, 10 June 2018
• Revolver helped legitimize the local pop-up scene and served as a launching pad for numerous chefs.
  — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 24 Dec. 2019
• One thing that West has accomplished in the past decade is helping to legitimize dilettantism.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2019
• The fact that the victim is making payments of principal and interest might legitimize the claim.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2023
• The fact that the victim is making payments of principle and interest might legitimize the claim.
  — cleveland, 6 Mar. 2020
• But, like so many facets of the GOP, the company has legitimized radical voices in recent years.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 17 Oct. 2023
• Elon Musk helped legitimize cryptocurrencies in the eyes of Wall Street investors.
  — Anchalee Worrachate, Fortune, 18 May 2021
• The tactics used in antisemitic marches and protests will be legitimized.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 11 May 2024
• Lawyers and scholars would pass judgment, and cross-partisan pro-democracy coalitions would need to emerge to support and legitimize the states’ contentious actions.
  — Jenna Bednar, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
• Still, there is opportunity for this group to continue to legitimize its early-season performance with a strong night against the suddenly struggling champs.
  — Jonas Siegel, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024