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
• 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
• 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
• In the case of the PC Manager app, the tactic will probably do little to help popularize Bing.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 16 May 2024
• 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
• Miguel, who records solely in Spanish, was the best-selling Latin artist of the '90s and is credited with popularizing the bolero genre in the mainstream.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2024
• Tim League, the founder of the cinema company which helped popularize the idea of dine-in moviegoing, says that Alamo still plans to keep expanding in 2022.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 30 Dec. 2021
• But in 1973, the family sold their company to Coca-Cola, which used the brand to popularize boxed wines.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
• His exacting vision has helped popularize the rise of neo-Westerns — stories that take the conventions of the Western genre and place them in the present.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 21 Apr. 2022
• Unlike Veronica Lake, the 1940s starlet who popularized the hairstyle back in the day, Rihanna didn't fully cover one eye with her hair, but a portion was brushed forward for a subtle peekaboo effect.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 17 Sep. 2024
• The concept of deep work, popularized by author Cal Newport, emphasizes the importance of long periods of uninterrupted focus.
  — Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024