How to Use popularize in a Sentence

popularize

verb

• The book presents a popularized version of American history.
• Dream analysis was popularized by Sigmund Freud.
• According to Imo’s, the now-franchised restaurant that opened in 1964 and popularized the style, the choice to use it was the whim of a cook.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
• Red Bull was one of the first brands to popularize slim cans, and White Claw saw success with its hard seltzer in thin white cans.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
• In the mid-’90s Diana helped to popularize all-hours gym wear.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2021
• The picture is a bodegón, a subgenre that Sánchez Cotán helped to popularize.
  — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 13 May 2022
• Quiñones was a member of the Lockers crew that helped popularize the locking style of street dance.
  — NBC News, 30 Dec. 2020
• Calvin Klein was the first to popularize unisex fragrances with the debut of CK One in 1994.
  — Tanya Klich, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2022
• At the time, no one would’ve called the looks timeless, but the Y2K style Hilton helped popularize—low-rise jeans and going-out tops—has come back around.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Feb. 2023
• There was no vote on the rugby-style push-play that the Eagles popularized in 2022, but the debate around it was contentious.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
• When first popularized, it was worn by men and women alike, but in the 1920s, U.S. department stores claimed blue for boys and pink for girls.
  — Karena Phan, Fortune, 21 July 2023
• Robbins popularized the belief that the mind follows where the body leads.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• Her devotion to the waltz and polka helped popularize them in the United States.
  — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2021
• And that's in addition to the many years it's already been trying to popularize VR.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 5 Feb. 2022
• The use of that song, popularized in the movie Titanic, was not authorized, Dion’s team said.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2024
• Now, Fitzpatrick pulled off the feat at the same course that helped popularize golf in the United States thanks to Ouimet and his improbable win in 1913.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2022
• Reid has popularized the spread in the NFL, which used to peer down its nose at the system that proliferates colleges.
  — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 1 Feb. 2020
• The 2013 release helped popularize the then-fresh blend of reggaeton with current hip-hop and club-style beats.
  — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
• The booklet was released in hopes that the ideas will help popularize a centrist third-party White House run.
  — Kelsey Walsh, ABC News, 17 July 2023
• Puck also helped to popularize a concept many take for granted: the open kitchen.
  — Lisa Fung, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2021
• Puente would go on to popularize Afro-Cuban and Caribbean sounds like mambo and cha-cha-chá.
  — Veronica Villafañe, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• Yes, this was mainly popularized a couple of years ago in a SpongeBob SquarePants meme.
  — Zachary Jaggers, Quartz, 26 Dec. 2019
• Duke Nukem, the 1990s video game that helped popularize the first-person shooter genre, is getting the feature film treatment.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2022
• Based off of Gary Jules' popularized cover of the song, Lambert wears every emotion on his sleeve, emoting through each of the song's painful lyrics.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2019
• In the case of the PC Manager app, the tactic will probably do little to help popularize Bing.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 16 May 2024
• It wasn't brought over to the U.S. until the 19th century, and was only popularized after the Civil War.
  — Taylor Mooney, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2020
• An innovative take on a fruit-forward recipe popularized in the 1960s, this dessert is worth the revival.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 24 June 2023
• The rule stopping the clock on first downs dates to 1967, decades before the hurry-up offenses popularized in college games.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
• But ideas QAnon helped popularize, like the idea of a battle against an evil deep state, and anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, have become common ideas on the right.
  — Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 30 Dec. 2024
• The Airport films have long been credited with popularizing the disaster movie genre, but their influence also helped to establish the airplane thriller as a subgenre all its own.
  — Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 30 Jan 2025