How to Use polarize in a Sentence

polarize

verb

• The war has polarized the nation.
• The current debate polarizes along lines of class and race.
• When circumstances are already heated, there’s no need to further polarize the obvious.
  — Abiola Salami, Forbes, 2 June 2022
• The reason for her initial hesitation was its potential to polarize.
  — Mike Wass, Variety, 19 Jan. 2022
• Tom Hanks, for instance, gives a performance that may polarize audiences.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2022
• With skill and care, Russian operatives tested and retested how best to polarize audiences.
  — Tom Southern, Wired, 10 Mar. 2022
• All this tit for tat will further undermine our institutions and polarize the nation—but such is the nature of retributive politics.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
• In a country that’s polarized on nearly every issue, a nuclear-energy consensus may be emerging.
  — John Fund, National Review, 11 Aug. 2024
• When stuff like this is happening, society begins to polarize, which is absolutely natural.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2022
• The show polarized critics, though it is now considered key within Guston’s artistic development.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 9 Aug. 2024
• For a population that had gotten hooked on cheap meat and dairy, the animal movement’s message was polarizing, judgmental, and restrictive.
  — Crystal Heath, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
• Trump and Musk are both polarizing figures who have a complicated relationship with one another and with politics.
  — Rebecca Picciotto,christina Wilkie, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2024
• Both those goods have a darker side, with social media allowing dangerous conspiracies to be spread and harsh political beliefs to polarize a nation.
  — WSJ, 21 June 2022
• The move may polarize some Apple fans who have gotten used to the notch, but the promise of more screen space is likely to be a change most iPhone users will enthusiastically embrace.
  — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• This year, stealth wealth emerged as one of the biggest—and most polarizing—trends.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2023
• It's become even more polarizing in the lead-up to the 2024 election.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 31 July 2024
• In a Court, and a country, as polarized as this one, such exchanges can be helpful.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• The actress was impressed by the polarizing main course.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
• Trump and Vance will be strident and polarizing in their rhetoric.
  — Dave Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 22 July 2024
• The singer was spotted in the Hamptons yesterday wearing a polarizing style that’s ebbed in and out of style over the years.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2023
• Viewers' reactions to the film were polarizing, to say the least.
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• The polarizing debate surrounding the war in Gaza war was already primed to spark protests in Berlin.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2024
• The actions were part of a wave of fallout on campuses for students, who are deeply polarized over the fighting.
  — Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• But in the decade that followed his presidency, the right closed ranks, tearing down the big tent and working to polarize the electorate.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 9 Sep. 2022
• Around the world, nations have become deeply polarized.
  — TIME, 18 Mar. 2024
• Later in the meeting, some board members suggested Meier was working to polarize the board with the claim.
  — Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
• Canteen Boy, like so many of his ideas, was polarizing.
  — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
• It’s not our intent to polarize for the sake of ceremony.
  — Men's Health, 25 Oct. 2022
• Memphis design was provocative and polarizing—and that was the point.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• The film polarized viewers but many film critics called it a masterpiece.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Sep 2024