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.
• Wham! did polarize opinion from the word go, so we were used to that.
  — Kim Willis, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
• This year, stealth wealth emerged as one of the biggest—and most polarizing—trends.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2023
• The nation is more polarized than at any point since the Civil War.
  — Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 6 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Scooters, on the other hand, have been polarizing from the get-go.
  — Johana Bhuiyan, Recode, 30 Aug. 2018
• 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
• Drummond's value seems to be polarizing not just among fans but around the NBA.
  — Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 22 Nov. 2019
• And the easiest way to accomplished that is to polarize the electorate along class lines.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 27 June 2018
• 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
• Rivet examined the rise of the barrel jean and how the polarizing fit became a cool-girl must-have in 2024.
  — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 27 Dec. 2024
• Keep in mind that polarized glasses cut glare, but not UV damage.
  — Amanda Gardner, Health.com, 13 June 2018
• Yes, but: The list (and others like it) has become polarizing.
  — Arika Herron, Axios, 24 Sep. 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
• Amy March, the youngest of the bunch, polarizes fans with her selfishness and her suitor, the very man many readers think the book’s main character, Jo, should love.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 14 Aug. 2019
• As the country has become more polarized, this has meant more frequent lurches in the Badger State.
  — Nancy C. Unger / Made By History, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024
• The issue is polarizing, but not down the middle and not strictly along party lines.
  — Benjamin Case, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2024
• Times and perceptions do change — and the approach to policing is as polarized as ever.
  — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• It’s not our intent to polarize for the sake of ceremony.
  — Men's Health, 25 Oct. 2022
• Cultural clashes in the form of library book removals and a polarizing pastor brought the nationwide social and political polarization close to home.
  — Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 30 Dec. 2024
• Initiatives like this have the potential to keep high-tech manufacturing in the U.S. and help rectify the geographic, educational, and economic gaps that have polarized many of our communities.
  — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025