How to Use nationalize in a Sentence

nationalize

verb

• The government nationalized the health-care system in the mid-1950s.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The new ad is the latest sign that Republicans are looking to nationalize the governor's race.
  — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2023
• Last year a group of senators even introduced a bill to nationalize the pension funds, as Argentina did in 2008.
  — Axel Kaiser, WSJ, 2 June 2021
• For Republicans who’ve been working to nationalize their races all along, the impeachment news couldn’t have come at a better time.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2019
• Despite those actions, Ms. Yellen said that the United States was not taking a step in the direction of nationalizing the banking system.
  — Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• Russian President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, has vowed to nationalize businesses that try to pull out of the country.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
• The Kremlin has threatened to nationalize assets of corporations that leave the country over its assault on Ukraine.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
• Allende’s plan, which nationalized all mines including US copper interests, quickly drew the ire of the US.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 21 Apr. 2023
• There were countries that were nationalizing their oil.
  — CBS News, 12 Feb. 2020
• But in May the Ukrainian government seized the investment as part of its sweep to nationalize Russian assets within its borders.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 28 July 2022
• Credit Suisse hasn’t been seized and put under receivership, nor has it been nationalized.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
• The arrival of Zelenskiy has stoked speculation that the decision to nationalize the bank could be reviewed.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2019
• Castillo, who defied polls to win the first-round vote, has vowed to nationalize Camisea and raise taxes on mines, as well as seek a referendum on drafting a new constitution.
  — Maria Cervantes, Bloomberg.com, 20 May 2021
• Bolivia has long taken a state-centric approach to its lithium industry, while Chile announced a plan to nationalize the sector last month.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2023
• Over the summer, the government forcibly nationalized a Catholic hospital.
  — Alexander Raikin, National Review, 14 Sep. 2023
• Some will outright nationalize, some will take equity stakes, some will provide loans, and others will choose to regulate.
  — Kevin Sneader, Fortune, 1 May 2020
• There has been a fair amount of discussion about local elections becoming nationalized — that happened, to a degree, in the Montgomery Steppe-Reichert race.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023
• Now, as long as Trump stays on the map, and as long as Trump is dictating who's running in these local races, that's nationalizing this election in a way that Democrats could never nationalize the election.
  — NBC News, 8 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024