How to Use modernize in a Sentence

modernize

verb

• The school needs a building with modernized classrooms.
• The country recently announced plans to begin modernizing its army.
• Older companies will need to modernize quickly if they are to survive in today's economy.
• We're modernizing our kitchen with a new oven, refrigerator, and dishwasher.
• The design has been modernized, there's no more Home button, and the bezels around the screen are slim.
  — WIRED, 2 Nov. 2023
• The sharpest chapter is a crash course on how to predict the weather, a process Palmer helped to modernize.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2022
• Others pushed further in their quest to modernize the creaky wool suit.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 20 June 2022
• In San Diego, plans have been in place for more than two decades to modernize the city’s library system to the 21st century.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2022
• Nannette Brown painted the brick firebox black to create depth and to modernize the space.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 6 Oct. 2022
• The logo has been modernized, and the Android mascot, called Bugdroid, has a fresh 3D look.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023
• There are a fair few ways to modernize your desk setup with new monitors or stands to make your desk the best spot in your house to work.
  — Kyle Barr / Gizmodo, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2024
• An archival leather car coat was modernized with French plonge leather and lined in sumptuous camel hair.
  — Dan Q. Dao, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2024
• And efforts in Congress to modernize the system have failed.
  — Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 19 Aug. 2022
• The money would help hire and train more agents, as well as modernize the IRS’s internal systems.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2023
• The change to a Black lead modernizes what has always been a uniformly white family in these types of movies.
  — Kimanzi Constable, Parents, 4 Feb. 2024
• The paper helped kick off a debate about how to limit the tech giants and how to modernize antitrust practices.
  — Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• The grandstand will be modernized and made smaller for the smaller on-track crowds that horse racing has drawn in recent years.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023
• That’s why the city is working to modernize older office spaces and construct new ones with these goals in mind.
  — Myah Taylor, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
• His goal: modernize how artists find musicians to play with.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2022
• Whether that means modernizing an older home with new furniture or taking it down to the studs, there’s quite a range to work with.
  — Blake Bakkila, Sunset Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
• The paper helped kick off a debate about whether U.S. antitrust laws needed to be modernized to rein in tech giants.
  — David McCabe, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• Leave it to too-cool Copenhagen label Ganni to modernize the classic clog with a few key details.
  — Aemilia Madden, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Sep. 2022
• The governor’s call for a 2024 ballot measure to modernize the state’s behavioral health system is the capstone of his State of the State tour.
  — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2023
• The queen demonstrated over her 70 years this ability to adapt and modernize.
  — Dan Balz, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2022
• Obama seemed to see her wardrobe as part of an effort to modernize and expand the archetypes of American glamour.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
• Tran said that the scope of the project was to update all the interior finishes and modernize the home as much as possible.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
• As monarchies modernize to survive, the royal families of Denmark, Norway, Spain and Japan all have made changes to meet the times.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2023
• African Parks is trying to square modernizing the country with preserving the wildlife.
  — Sam Mednick, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2024
• Real-world impact Fed up with the stonewalling, state and federal agencies have sued San Francisco in hopes of forcing the city to modernize its wastewater system.
  — Tom Philp, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
• Even Burgess acknowledges how badly the state needed to modernize its voter registration system.
  — Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024