How to Use magnetize in a Sentence
magnetize
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Think of a time when you’ve been filled up from the inside out and just magnetized an object of desire.
—Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 27 Apr. 2018
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John wasn’t much at coming up with new melodies, but the words were magnetizing.
—Robert Hilburn, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2020
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As with most Dysons, the remote (which is magnetized to stay put on the device’s top) or app can be used to control the machine.
—Alida Nugent, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Jan. 2024
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Style has a logic that magnetizes itself to its subjects, which then, in turn, absorb the style.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023
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In addition to plain ol’ good looks, Sheridan has two things you just can’t learn as an actor: the kind of energy the camera seeks out, and eyes that magnetize it.
—Rebecca Haithcoat, GQ, 28 Mar. 2018
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When the tip cools below its Curie point, it is magnetized by virtue of the field from the nearby movable magnet, which is then drawn to it, closing the switch and reapplying power.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2017
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By exploiting the properties of this thread, the researchers were able to magnetize small sections of fabric.
—Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 3 Nov. 2017
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Pulsars are the undead magnetized cores of massive stars that have met their end in a supernova.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2023
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And now, Tom feels Dickie slipping away, magnetized instead to his old pal Freddie.
—Hazlitt, 28 Feb. 2024
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And at the top of the QB list, while every other name on the massive board was horizontally magnetized, four vertical QB nametags were at the top.
—Peter King, SI.com, 30 Apr. 2018
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The windings are magnetized by the charge and push against the stationary ring of magnets that surround it, forcing the armature assembly to spin.
—Doug Mahoney, Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2018
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Lapid, his camera magnetized by the human body whether in motion or at rest, confronts you with Yoav’s nakedness early and often.
—Justin Chang, chicagotribune.com, 5 Dec. 2019
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Everything is securely magnetized together, and there's no clear alcove to stick a finger in to pry the case open.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2023
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The eyes are quickly magnetized by dense blue sapphire waves wallpapered high, and Thunberg—arms crossed, eyes alight—is peeking from backstage.
—Jason Parham, Wired, 13 Dec. 2019
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On the largest moving rig this show has ever had, inspired by F9, and played in pairs, teams will be tethered together on a moving truck and retrieve puzzle pieces magnetized on the walls.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 7 May 2020
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Whether any of their creations transcend gee-whizzery and prove powerful enough to magnetize deeper meanings to it will become clearer with time.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
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Dinner smells from the lodge windows magnetize the bears, which, tourists complain, come begging for food rather than exhibit wild behavior.
—Michael Engelhard, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2017
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Dinner smells from the lodge windows magnetize the bears, which, tourists complain, come begging for food rather than exhibit wild behavior.
—Michael Engelhard, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2017
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Even the camera, which generally serves the story in as fluid and unshowy a way as possible, can’t help but be magnetized by the sheer dynamism of Foxx’s screen presence.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
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At least some of the stones used to craft sculptures were hit by lightning at some point in the past, magnetizing the material, according to the research conducted on 11 basalt figures.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 6 Aug. 2019
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Miranda, in the film version, is an ethereal blonde who waltzes into the wilderness as her acolytes follow, magnetized by her hazy aura.
—Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 22 May 2018
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The recent heavy rain has created instant ponds and lakes, such as the ones covering the Sawgrass Mills parking lots, magnetize mosquitoes.
—David J. Neal, miamiherald, 8 June 2017
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By transforming an old theater into a disco, the two men also recast the nightscape of the city, creating a club that magnetized the famous and the merely fabulous equally.
—New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
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Willett and his colleagues deposited a circuit onto the surface of a gallium arsenide crystal, cooled and magnetized it to induce the 5/2 state, and then measured the peaks and troughs in the current flowing through the circuit.
—Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2014
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At the same time, other possible sources of the magnetization have been ruled out: Allende and its fellows were not magnetized by a field produced in the sun, or by the dusty disk itself, or by transient plumes around impacts.
—Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2016
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Tension and release are the elastic poles that magnetize classical music.
—David Mermelstein, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2018
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On covers, the artist weaves multiple elements into one image that will magnetize eyes.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 26 Aug. 2021
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One was connected to a battery, thereby magnetizing the iron, and the other was connected to a galvanometer to detect electric current.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
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Registering the artifice in Hopper’s limpid art may free us to see a link between hotel rooms and painting itself: Both magnetize desire and a longing to escape.
—Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2019
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Many South Floridians and others around the nation monitored the drama on television, magnetized by the possibility — the hope — that Cunanan was cornered, about to be caught.
—By Frances Robles, John Lantigua and Martin Merzer, miamiherald, 2 July 2017
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