How to Use memorize in a Sentence

memorize

verb
  • Nobody is going to walk away with the entire content of your poster memorized.
    Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2019
  • The average person takes a full hour to memorize just 166 words.
    Paul C. Brunson, USA TODAY, 12 July 2018
  • From her memorizing hair to her Beychella makeup, the singer hasn't been afraid to change up her look and try something new.
    Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 6 Sep. 2018
  • There is, of course, an easy method to program such a bot which would be to program it to memorize the process of its shuffling and then reverse it in order to solve.
    Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2018
  • Human studies, on the other hand, often ask participants to memorize a list to test their recall.
    Teal Burrell, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2019
  • The complaint said the woman memorized Parmar’s license plate and called a cab from a nearby convenience store.
    Jim Mustian, The Seattle Times, 17 Oct. 2018
  • The fact is women don't need to apologize more, but the world would be a lot better if women and men memorized the Haddish method—and normalized it.
    Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 2 Jan. 2019
  • Historical thinking, Wineburg shows us in , has nothing to do with test prep–style ability to memorize facts.
    Sam Wineburg, Smithsonian, 12 June 2019
  • And no need to memorize, take screenshots, or scramble for pen and paper — the data is automatically synced with the Health app on your iPhone.
    Amina Lake Abdelrahman, Good Housekeeping, 7 Dec. 2018
  • In the filing, Gadd stated that Harvey memorized his shift patterns at the pub after their first meeting, and would sometimes come and sit at the bar for his entire shift.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 30 July 2024
  • Also, players don't have to memorize ridiculous 20-button combos, because game play requires only three buttons and the analog stick.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2018
  • In a way this simplifies the experience; pulling off combos or special moves doesn’t require memorizing a needlessly long string of button inputs.
    Andrew Webster, The Verge, 6 July 2018
  • The last 10 percent will come when the technology can create and memorize individual speech models for every user.
    Kevin Wheeler, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2018
  • For Levi, he was inspired to memorize the song lyrics and start off the year right.
    Dallas News, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Go ahead and re-read this line three times to memorize it.
    Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2021
  • This is it: memorize their breath and the stretch of your limbs and their sweat on your breastbone.
    Ella Dawson, Longreads, 18 May 2020
  • So memorize his face now, and get ready to hear lots more about him.
    Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, 13 Oct. 2020
  • My goal was to read, write or memorize 28 poems in the month.
    David G. Allan, CNN, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Of being able to glance at a room and memorize all the details.
    Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
  • To work the bar in these moments was its own game of skill: scan the front row of faces, memorize an order, tune out the jeers from the back.
    Hazlitt, 21 June 2023
  • It’s one of those numbers — 4,256 — that kids used to memorize.
    Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 27 Jan. 2022
  • It’s more about teaching them to think than to memorize.
    al, 3 Nov. 2019
  • The poem does not need to be memorized and should be five minutes or less.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2023
  • The code to open the safe is underwater, so every agent has to dive down and memorize a part of the code.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2021
  • When the twins were in fourth grade their homework each week was to memorize a new poem.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Players had to memorize and place 12 names of the plaza's scultures and statues on a board map.
    Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The goal is to teach them to do more than simply memorize the types of questions and problems that appear on the test.
    Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Most of us memorized basic math facts like 5+6=11 in grade school.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Many plan out their outfits and memorize their schedules for the day.
    Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Five times wasn’t enough for the crowd who was entranced with Lamar’s every word, having already memorized the lyrics to the number one charting diss track.
    Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2024

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