How to Use memorialize in a Sentence

memorialize

verb
Definition of memorializenext
Synonyms for memorializenext
  • The catch was so clutch, coach Mitch Canham said, the Beavers would have find a way to memorialize it.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 16 Apr. 2022
  • In 1826, artist Charles de Steuben set forth to memorialize Napoleon’s life in a painting.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Murphy's name was memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the cemetery.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 25 June 2024
  • But that’s the kind of thing the world will have to take in now largely from bits posted online or memorialized on tape and film.
    — Janell Ross, Time, 18 July 2023
  • His celebration was memorialized with a statue, with his leg in the air and fist thrust in the sky.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • The 9/11 victims are memorialized at the site of the former World Trade Center towers.
    — USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Even the fountain that memorialized the bombing was crushed in the 2001 attacks.
    — Arkansas Online, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The phase where nurses stamp tiny hands and feet into clay to memorialize unmet hopes and dreams.
    — Rachel Fleishman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
  • If the site is landmarked, it can be used to memorialize the rich Black history of New York City.
    — Ramisa Rob, NBC News, 19 July 2022
  • The city is determined to put a name to every one of those who died and memorialize them with a monument.
    — Liz Sly, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2022
  • They were memorialized with a bronze plaque in the old Enquirer Building on Vine Street.
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 29 May 2023
  • Who better to memorialize him than the actress who worked alongside him for more than 40 years?
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Even the fountain that memorialized the bombing was crushed on Sept. 11.
    — Jennifer Peltz, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The Times has famously fought with the White House, as memorialized in a Politico story.
    — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
  • Even the fountain that memorialized the bombing was crushed in the later attack.
    — Jennifer Peltz, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The feat, memorialized by a statue in New York’s Central Park and books and movies, preserved the sled dog’s place among the world’s most famous animals.
    — Mark Johnson and Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • On June 6, Biden will travel to Normandy, France, to memorialize an event that has served for eight decades as a focal point of this vision.
    — Massimo Calabresi / Washington, TIME, 4 June 2024
  • But all will remember her, and many will memorialize her through memes.
    — Chris Stokel-Walker, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Along the same wall are two gavels, one of which is in a display case, memorializing the passage of the American Rescue Plan.
    — Nolan D. McCaskill, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Sometimes gangsters paid singers to memorialize them with a song.
    — Wire Services, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Shapley, in contrast, memorialized his takeaways from the meeting in notes and an email later that day.
    — Jacqueline Alemany and Devlin Barrett, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • To memorialize her companion, and the city's first K9, McManus proposed the bronze statue.
    — Journal Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2022
  • At the time, Persons said the renovations would include some way to memorialize the victims of the shooting.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 14 July 2022
  • The animal and the region’s wineries are memorialized on the new release’s label art.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Trail markers memorialize the glacier’s backward march, showing where the ice once stood.
    — Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Trail markers memorialize the glacier's backward march, showing where the ice once stood.
    — Becky Bohrer, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
  • These sun-sational art prints are an easy way to memorialize a summer day.
    — Kim Hutchison, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 July 2022
  • Others come to such posts to memorialize their friends, often after they’ve been forbidden to do so at school.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The group, fronted by Pat Monahan, memorialized him on May 22 with a heartfelt note.
    — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 22 May 2024
  • The right to take this step, which can be used to lower the cost of a prescription medicine, was memorialized in a World Trade Organization agreement.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 6 Feb. 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'memorialize.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: