How to Use ritualize in a Sentence

ritualize

verb
Definition of ritualizenext
  • And so redemption, in the land of second chances—for the people who have been deemed worthy of them—has been thoroughly ritualized.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The forging of a katana was an intricate and ritualized affair.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
  • The stage is ritualized space, decorated with a few poles.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
  • Even for this White House, though, Comey’s ouster was remarkably ritualized and medieval: a Corleone gesture, the loyalist sent across town with a letter in his hand.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 10 May 2017
  • Clark, on the other hand, has dark opinions about coffee and instead ritualizes the slow steep of first-flush Dragon Well green tea or silver-needle white tea, a daily moment of Zen not always easily found among the crystals and crayons.
    — Leilani Marie Labong, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Tammé struggles through back pains, and her daily life ritualizes into a bruising montage: wine, pills, wrestling, repeat, repeat.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 19 July 2019
  • Japanese nuptials tend to be highly ritualized, especially for a royal family member, and the buildup to the wedding is likely to take time.
    — Washington Post, 16 May 2017
  • Safaris are ritualized meanderings, circular quests in which a question leads to an answer, which leads to another question, and so on.
    — Ken Geiger, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • Another was into the fierce youth subcultures on the streets which became ritualized in the violent youth-gang culture, reinforcing the neighborhood climate of fear.
    — Don Pinnock, Quartz Africa, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Eleven feet wide, it was discovered inside a gold casket inside a bronze casket inside a stone pagoda — a layered, ritualized interment nearly as lavish as anything in ancient Egypt.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 29 June 2019
  • In a country where apologies are highly ritualized, even his bow — briefer and shallower than those of most executives seeking the public’s forgiveness — became a target of criticism.
    — Jonathan Soble, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Her ritualized breathing and cries of anguish are almost synchronized with the score, an interplay that’s genuinely unsettling leading up to a dramatic finish.
    — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 28 June 2019
  • This was Canadian camp; the essential element of theatre enriched her sense of hockey’s ritualized violence.
    — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Though abuses do occur, conduct on these platforms is ritualized for safety and mutual understanding.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 19 June 2019
  • Traditionally, international diplomacy relies on a fixed set of rules and rhetoric, which are highly ritualized and exact for a reason: to ensure there are no misunderstandings between countries.
    — Maya Kosoff, The Hive, 1 Aug. 2017

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