How to Use demonize in a Sentence

demonize

verb
Definition of demonizenext
  • Clark was demonized in the press and imprisoned for murder.
    — David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2023
  • This flood of attention feels to him like one more way to demonize Black people and convey the sense that nothing has changed.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Felicia: Maybe because the Supreme Court and others on the right have managed to demonize unions.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 11 May 2023
  • This prediction came when jazz was being demonized by some, so was rather shocking at the time.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • She was demonized by left-wing pundits and harassed by activists who even swarmed her in a bathroom.
    — The Editors, National Review, 6 Mar. 2024
  • And the penalty is compounded when they are demonized as bad parents and kept from their children.
    — CNN, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Donald Trump, Fox News, and the other organs in the right-wing universe are holding up Berliner’s 3,500-word piece to demonize the outlet.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
  • But Pixar's latest movie is proving that isn't something to demonize.
    — Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2022
  • And, from that, came a week of Amanda being demonized by the media, which was absolutely a breach of human rights.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2023
  • She was demonized as crazy and out of control where she had once been admired, even idolized, for her nonconformist views.
    — Daphne Merkin, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
  • This isn’t an issue of Dad’s demand, but of dealing with a mind-set that demonizes, demeans and subjugates half the human race.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The apparent goal of the series was to avoid further demonizing the Branch Davidians, which the news media did plenty of at the time.
    — Joshua Alston, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
  • While the film shows these changes aren't something to demonize, some parents found issue with the topic being brought into a children's movie.
    — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2022
  • And stop demonizing @SenTuberville for calling you out.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
  • This lawsuit doesn’t give any of us an excuse to demonize her because of her weight; that would be doing the exact violence she’s accused of.
    — Vulture, 2 Aug. 2023
  • And because of the diet industry’s tendency to demonize the whole group, sometimes the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater.
    — Rachel Reiff Ellis, Fortune, 26 July 2022
  • Tax-and-spend progressives continue to demonize one of the main drivers of the state’s economic success.
    — Jonathan Williams, National Review, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Leave it to the former President to demonize his political opponents in the wake of an act of madness.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 May 2022
  • Delaporte, the member of Parliament who co-sponsored the bill, said its goal is not to judge or demonize influencers.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
  • After he was demonized in the press, Reubens spent the rest of the ‘90s quietly appearing in various supporting roles.
    — Nicholas Bell, Spin, 7 Aug. 2023
  • With the Democrats facing a dire outlook in the midterm elections, the smartest political move for Biden would have been to demonize the Republicans as the armed-to-the-teeth party beholden to the gun lobby.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 3 June 2022
  • What Devi hears her mother say is truly heart-wrenching, but the writing does not demonize Nalini.
    — Abby Govindan, Vulture, 15 July 2021
  • Killing and demonizing 100s of thousands of Muslims will NOT end this violence.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The agenda is still largely the same: which is to say, demonize gay and trans people, attack people’s right to choose, and cut social spending that millions of people rely on.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 20 Feb. 2023
  • How many trans kids will be broken, or become suicidal, because they are demonized and denied care?
    — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
  • Meanwhile, the government demonized both the United States and the Soviet Union and became a major sponsor of terrorism in the region.
    — Lucan Ahmad Way, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
  • Indeed, rather than demonizing the recount effort, Low should have been applauding it.
    — Daniel Borenstein, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
  • Beijing argues that Western media have long held biases against China and at times have demonized it.
    — Didi Tang, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Kocur, who shares a similar background to that of his characters, never set out to demonize them or their environment.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 17 Nov. 2022
  • National security has often been the guise for demonizing and censuring Asians in the U.S., Yang said.
    — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2023

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