How to Use internalize in a Sentence

internalize

verb
Definition of internalizenext
  • They have internalized their parents' values.
  • Jack, just like a lot of soldiers of the era, dealt with and internalized a lot.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Being an Israeli means that the sense of the state is internalized in you.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Over time many of the young people internalized these views and came to be ashamed of their culture.
    — Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Life comes at you fast and the most successful people have to internalize those lessons even faster to stay in the game.
    — Aron Solomon, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The creative team has very much internalized the lessons of Season Three.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Some of us internalize our pain, while others find ways to channel it out into the world, for good and for ill.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The simplest route to this is to use taxes to force companies to internalize the cost of carbon.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
  • My mom also hates tattoos and can’t seem to internalize that my niece is trolling her.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Jeff seems to have been internalizing a lot of the events that happened last season, many of which are out of his control.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Over the past few years, the Jazz had internalized the friction of modern basketball.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 26 July 2019
  • The grueling day reminds him of something he’s been forced to internalize the last half-year.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Aug. 2021
  • For those still looking to take the first step, internalize the lessons to be learned from these five mistakes and know that a better way of doing things is out there.
    — Tal Frankfurt, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • In other words, try to internalize the pain of oppression and the joy of redemption.
    — Ron Shulman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2022
  • But even people who are not men can internalize this stuff.
    — Britni De La Cretaz, refinery29.com, 13 Apr. 2021
  • But for her part, the singer didn’t internalize the industry’s blatant bias.
    — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2023
  • As a result, boys cry far less, and internalize their emotions far more.
    — John Duffy, CNN, 4 May 2021
  • Children of the '80s internalized the idea that old cars were generally cooler and faster, and to a large extent, that was true.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 7 Apr. 2020
  • But Catherine Olsson, the project’s de facto leader, told me the rubric had helped her internalize what was safe.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 8 Aug. 2021
  • If something goes awry, chefs internalize every problem in the kitchen—and after twelve-hour shifts, six nights in a row, their lives outside the kitchen take a toll for the worse.
    — Briana Riddock, Outside Online, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Over time, children internalize your voice and your rules.
    — Miriam Foley, Parents, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Perhaps the spats with my sister had led me to internalize her resentment: to feel too much would be to take something that wasn’t mine.
    — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The speed in which the US withdrawal didn't even give them a chance to see what was happening and to internalize this and reorganize.
    — CBS News, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The education in who not to be — the chola, the chonga, or the around-the-way girl — has led many of us to internalize shame about our racialized femininity.
    — Jillian Hernandez, refinery29.com, 17 Aug. 2022
  • When parents fail to talk openly about emotions, as was the case in Waltz's home, teens are more likely internalize their feelings.
    — Jayne O'Donnell, USA TODAY, 8 June 2020
  • And the other features of a bike that can sometimes catch your pants or cause hassles have been internalized, including the gear system and the cables.
    — Nathan Borchelt, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Freestone: People need to internalize that data is the point.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Doug Skura would go to work early in the morning and return late at night, and over the years his son internalized those virtues, his diligence and his devotion.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • This makes Snoop an agent of enculturation — the process by which youths learn and internalize the warped values of an aberrant social space.
    — Armond White, National Review, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Especially in this phase of life, which is a very reflective stage of just being so aware of all the things but also trying to stay present and not internalize all the things.
    — Rikkí Wright, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022

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