How to Use romanticize in a Sentence

romanticize

verb

• We were romanticizing about the past.
• He has romanticized notions of army life.
• Sam wrote it in a way and shot it in a way that does not romanticize drugs — at least, not for me, anyway.
  — Mónica Marie Zorrilla, Variety, 13 Feb. 2022
• That was true in the past that Heatherwick romanticizes, too.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2023
• Of course not to romanticize autism or say that people should have autism.
  — Kk Ottesen, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2021
• Yet the writers do not romanticize the life of the Ohio laborer.
  — cleveland, 30 Dec. 2021
• None of this is meant to romanticize the Tenderloin in its current state.
  — Ryan Kost, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2020
• On the show, Tony spoke of him in reverent tones, but Tony also had a tendency to romanticize the past.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2021
• At the same time, Patel romanticizes her services to the advancement of her own ends.
  — Nora Caplan-Bricker, The New Republic, 4 June 2019
• That’s a lot of what the book is about to me, not needing to romanticize the dead and validate our own experience with them.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2022
• The notion of fall in New England and old money and that whole world is easy to romanticize, so giving it this big, huge bear hug in this movie was fun.
  — John Wenzel, The Know, 1 Dec. 2019
• There is, in all of this, a temptation to romanticize what came before.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
• Sussman writes that figs and grapes have been romanticized in Jewish texts since ancient times.
  — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
• Guiding is easy to romanticize: you get paid to push boats through big waves, find untracked powder, and summit peaks.
  — Kitty Galloway, Outside Online, 10 Dec. 2021
• To the south the memorials advanced the myth of the Lost Cause, which years after the insurrection failed romanticized its purpose.
  — Michael Miner, Chicago Reader, 31 Aug. 2017
• Hats off to the filmmakers for not pulling punches and romanticizing this city’s past.
  — David Zurawik, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2017
• Perhaps the person will romanticize the act of driving.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• Even restaurants that align themselves with the farm-to-table movement can be just as guilty of romanticizing farm life.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 9 Sep. 2019
• Some at The Post are chagrined at in the intimation that Spielberg has romanticized their role.
  — James Warren, The Hive, 6 Dec. 2017
• And some on the left believe Kasich has been romanticized due to his opposition to Trump.
  — The Tylt, cleveland.com, 3 Oct. 2017
• But the partnership is unequal, and Zoabi is careful not to romanticize things.
  — Nora McGreevy, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• When the outlaw is reported dead, the widow romanticizes their tryst in a book that becomes a best-seller.
  — Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
• That’s not to romanticize the pain and anger expressed by both Joseph and Sanchez, emotions that fuel their advocacy and work.
  — Julissa Arce, refinery29.com, 3 Sep. 2020
• Her essay about the real, nonglamorous work of farming is a must-read for anyone who has romanticized the pursuit.
  — SFChronicle.com, 21 June 2019
• Does the concept of a Hot Girl Ailment romanticize illness?
  — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 25 June 2021
• There is a process of romanticizing and scrubbing away how overwhelming and terrifying childhood is a lot of the time for a lot of us.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2023
• But the crux of the cold open was reminding the American public not to romanticize the former president.
  — Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Billboard, 28 Jan. 2018
• Football builds self-confidence and mental toughness and is easy to romanticize for a guy like me, who used the sport to go from a small Indiana town to a career in the big city.
  — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 28 July 2017
• One way to do that is to stop romanticizing Native culture.
  — Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 31 May 2018
• Tumblr was the first place to widely romanticize the edgy, mysterious soft-grunge girl.
  — Maria Santa Poggi, Vogue, 2 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024