How to Use mythologize in a Sentence

mythologize

verb

• Please don’t mythologize the lifestyle of someone who is lost and in pain.
  — Dan Koeppel, Outside Online, 5 Sep. 2019
• At the mouth of the Boyne, there are two Neolithic standing stones (mythologized as a cow and her beloved calf).
  — Jane Smiley, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2016
• Corrine’s wasn’t one of the ugly houses mythologized in the company’s ads.
  — Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 11 May 2023
• Cooper is, in many ways, one of the last icons of an art world that has been mythologized as smaller, smarter, more authentic and less concerned with profit.
  — Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• Funny, nobody seemed to mind the classic Lakers-Celtics battles of the 1980s, which now are almost mythologized.
  — K.c. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2018
• Rasputin’s death, as well as the mass murder of the entire Romanov family, has been heavily mythologized over the years.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2023
• Weimar Germany is an easy era to mythologize, and Babylon Berlin isn’t coy about getting in on the mythologizing.
  — Adrian Daub, New Republic, 14 Feb. 2018
• The Civil War, followed by the country’s centennial in 1876, helped mythologize the flag.
  — Hillel Italie, Fortune, 4 July 2023
• Your interview style has been mythologized for your refusal to impose yourself in an exchange.
  — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Republic, 26 June 2019
• The four monuments mythologized the Lost Cause, a war of revolt against the federal government, and a 19th-century wave of white terrorism.
  — Guest Columnist, NOLA.com, 19 May 2017
• Where Gevers had mythologized himself as visionary thought leader, the report presented a long list of odd, dead-end projects.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
• There’s a lot of mythologizing out there that claims Trump is some kind of Teflon figure who isn’t hurt by the various scandals and controversies surrounding him.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 22 Aug. 2018
• Workplaces everywhere are struggling to find the sweet spot between productivity and having a good time, and there’s a lot of mythologizing the notion of fun.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 3 June 2018
• Her voyages mingle with sketches of writers like Boris Pilnyak and Vladimir Nabokov, which explore these artists’ lifelong work of self-mythologizing.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
• NFL Films, a catalyst in mythologizing pro football, produces more than 1,000 hours of programming per year.
  — SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Golf loves nothing more than upholding its self-mythologizing virtue.
  — Chris Chase, For The Win, 18 Apr. 2018
• Around the world, there are early signs that some of the emergency measures Wall Street is rolling out to keep employees safe in a pandemic will become a lasting practice in an industry that’s long mythologized the handshake.
  — Katia Porzecanski, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
• Burkard’s story was a good one, burnished by only a little self-mythologizing nostalgia.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
• Treacherous mountain ascents like Everest have long been mythologized by men.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 July 2023
• Long mythologized as a land of promise and plenty, the West is here reclaimed as a zone of uncertainty, danger and profound scarcity, where the myth of Manifest Destiny is eclipsed, and even mocked, by hard reality.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2020
• His father tended a large garden, while his artistic mother—a pretty blond woman of Austrian descent, whom Rhoades mythologized in his work—designed booths for county fairs and put on dress-up shows in the barn.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2017
• Forty years later, a backwoods hunter from Kentucky who grew up in a log cabin won the presidency, in part by mythologizing his own origins on the frontier in terms of the natural aristocracy of the common man.
  — Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2019
• Fans of Lynch -- and fans of the series, who have mythologized its idiosyncratic details over the last two decades -- will take in the director's vision with open arms, savoring its bizarre iconography and nonlinear storytelling.
  — Sonia Saraiya, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2017
• While many young stars who have died from drug abuse became mythologized, stuck in an immortal fast lane, Fisher laid out the much more ragged and tedious reality of a constant struggle that millions of Americans fight.
  — Richard Winton, The Seattle Times, 25 June 2017
• Several decades in the future that incident has been mythologized in Chinese culture and becomes the source material for a beloved East-West musical in China.
  — Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2018
• That seems to be exactly what Orange is doing: homing in, documentary-like, on the details, using fiction as a camera that sees and records without mythologizing.
  — Chelsea Leu, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 June 2018
• Ford is never interested merely in the natural world, but in the way humans have documented, exploited, and repurposed it, and how these species have been mythologized, even as most of them have disappeared from the wild.
  — The New York Review of Books, 16 Dec. 2018
• That battle, between the Christian Serbs and the Ottoman Turks, has been highly mythologized and there are contradictory historical accounts.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
• While female celebrities like Love are criticized for their rebellion, male celebrities, like Cobain for example, are celebrated and mythologized for it.
  — Lisawhill, Longreads, 9 July 2019
• The decision to portray a character like Jin, a 13th century warrior, in the same way that Japan would later mythologize the samurai for nationalistic purposes is worth discussing.
  — Reid McCarter, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024