How to Use sexualize in a Sentence

sexualize

verb

• We have all been sexualized, even as children and girls.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
• Monáe is still working at that task, but thing are much looser and more sexualized now.
  — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 3 May 2018
• To be very clear: the real predators here are the perverts who are sexualizing kids.
  — Zara Hanawalt, Parents, 23 Mar. 2024
• Which brings me onto the final point: What has any of this got to do with sexualizing children?
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 14 Oct. 2019
• Along the way, the foursome is still wrestling with the toxicity of how they were sexualized and treated in their youth.
  — Esther Zuckerman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• Band was one of the few places on campus where our daughter never felt sexualized or pressured to drink.
  — Rose Chan Loui., The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2017
• No co-star there to sexualize the moment, no moaning, no hair tossing.
  — Glamour, 3 May 2018
• The female gaze doesn’t only have to be on men, or not sexualizing women.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 21 Feb. 2020
• The contrast is rare enough to feel refreshing, and the nudity in the script isn’t sexualizing the characters.
  — Shana O'Neil, The Verge, 24 July 2019
• There’s a history of being exoticized, fetishized and sexualized, but through a white male point of view.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Mar. 2023
• My fiancée should be able to wear a bathing suit without being sexualized and demeaned.
  — Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com, 27 June 2017
• Femme-enfant is a common term applied to women in his work—part childlike guide to the world of dreams, part hyper-sexualized being.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2018
• Wilkinson admits she was sexualized at a young age, even before the mansion.
  — Danielle Bacher, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
• The agenda has swung so far left in an attempt to sexualize our precious children that parents are fighting back.
  — Fox News, 7 Apr. 2022
• Mayer was accused time and time again of being guilty of sexualizing children, instead of the dress being the culprit.
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 6 Mar. 2024
• That is a long way from being in favor of sexualizing children.
  — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 3 July 2023
• The circus acts that bookend the story are weirdly sexualized.
  — J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 26 Oct. 2017
• Most of the young women of Euphoria are sexualized from the jump, given little initial backstory but plenty of screen time to hook up.
  — Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
• These sisters are doing so well in their careers only for Vogue to sexualize a sibling relationship in the most creepy and non-artistic way.
  — Kaitlyn Frey, PEOPLE.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• Some argue the spots helped expand Patrick’s brand by sexualizing her and using her appearance as a selling point.
  — Jenna Fryer, The Seattle Times, 12 Feb. 2018
• Many have suggested that men invented heels to sexualize women and hold us back.
  — Chloe Malle, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
• There is a history of black women because of their bodies being sexualized and that’s what appears to be happening to me.
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• Amazon Prime In pop culture, sexualized priests are usually campy punchlines to bawdy jokes.
  — Dana Schwartz, Marie Claire, 17 May 2019
• This does not mean that Lensa AI's tendencies to sexualize female subjects don't exist.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 13 Dec. 2022
• Schneider also argued that the jokes on his sets were approved and meant to make children laugh, not sexualize them or make actors uncomfortable.
  — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2024
• Women’s experiences of policing in the war on drugs are thus highly gendered and sexualized.
  — Longreads, 3 Aug. 2017
• The blog has also sexualized her last name by adding a third X and has insinuated that members of her family are connected to gangs.
  — Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2023
• In fact, it was being recreated right in front of us as people took selfies that mocked the Sugar Sphinx, sexualized her, and humiliated her.
  — Longreads, 28 Feb. 2018
• To me, even in a violent act like street harassment, there was something humorous about a grown man sexualizing such a mundane moment.
  — Kat Lazo, refinery29.com, 8 Feb. 2024
• Quiet on Set tackles the kaleidoscopic complexities of kids TV, where what was celebrated as sweet and harmless comedy in a bygone era today to new eyes looks as if young actors were being sexualized on set, and deliberately so.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024