How to Use nationalize in a Sentence

nationalize

verb

• The government nationalized the health-care system in the mid-1950s.
• So, the fact is when Trump is involved, it's nationalized.
  — Fox News, 28 July 2018
• Even the attention of the donor class has nationalized.
  — Yascha Mounk, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2015
• But on Tuesday, Congress held a hearing to consider more than a dozen bills to nationalize the rules of the road.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 29 June 2017
• The GOP has decried the bills as an effort to nationalize elections.
  — Adam Brewster, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2022
• Leftists are the ones who want to nationalize things like health care and the energy sector.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 2 Sep. 2022
• The threat is so acute that the government made plans to nationalize the business, known as Gazprom Energy.
  — Rachel Morison, Bloomberg.com, 26 Mar. 2022
• For her part, Brown and her allies have tried to nationalize the race a bit more by focusing on those past comments.
  — cleveland, 24 July 2021
• The aid infusion falls short of nationalizing the company, in which the French and Dutch states each own a 14 percent share.
  — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2020
• And the more a race is nationalized, the more that race can tell us about voters' moods going into November.
  — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2018
• While making a name for himself, Pedro caught the eye of Chavez himself — and the late president promised to support bids to nationalize the sport.
  — Natalie Keyssar, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2022
• Although Ohio is far from the border in question, the issue has been nationalized to great effect.
  — Ron Elving, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
• Of course the Empire didn’t want the powerful X-Wing falling into the wrong hands and tried to nationalize the company in service of the Empire.
  — Zarnon Kalgon, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
• Tran, who had gotten work at Shell Oil upon moving home, was laid off when the company was nationalized by the new regime.
  — Samantha Swindler, OregonLive.com, 21 Oct. 2017
• The more than 150 Catholic schools that once operated across the island were nationalized.
  — Peter Orsi, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2019
• At the same time, Lamb steadfastly avoided nationalizing the race and brushed off most questions about Trump.
  — Time, 14 Mar. 2018
• For that, Northam can thank Perriello, who nationalized the race in ways that should send shudders down the spines of Republicans across the country.
  — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 14 June 2017
• There also has been a push to re-nationalize the collection that once belonged to a Soviet artists’ trade union.
  — Nataliya Vasilyeva, The Seattle Times, 27 Apr. 2017
• On the campaign trail, Sanders proudly nationalized her run for state office.
  — Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 22 June 2024
• Each campaign blames the other for nationalizing the race.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2018
• Now, in a world where governments are nationalizing wages and public services just to keep their economies afloat, such claims no longer seem far-fetched.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2020
• At the time of Hebblethwaite's mass layoffs, the UK government had been urged to nationalize the company.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2022
• Russia’s actions to nationalize the planes still in Russia.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
• This law required the U.S. government to nationalize the country’s silver mines and use the silver production to mint coins.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2021
• The bloody 1980s war with Iraq saw Iran further nationalize its economy.
  — Nasser Karmi, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 May 2020
• Where everyone loses me is with the idea that the solution to these maladies can be found in Washington or in nationalizing movements of the Right or the Left.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 7 Aug. 2019
• The new ad is the latest sign that Republicans are looking to nationalize the governor's race.
  — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2023
• Socialists want to nationalize banks, not break them up.
  — Donald Brand, Fortune, 12 July 2017
• But Republicans believe their candidate can edge ahead of Brown by nationalizing the race.
  — Nik Popli, TIME, 7 Oct. 2024
• Further, a host government might suspend port operations or even move to seize or nationalize Chinese facilities if conflict broke out.
  — Isaac Kardon, Foreign Affairs, 22 May 2023

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024