How to Use romanticize in a Sentence

romanticize

verb
Definition of romanticizenext
Synonyms for romanticizenext
  • Sam wrote it in a way and shot it in a way that does not romanticize drugs — at least, not for me, anyway.
    — Mónica Marie Zorrilla, Variety, 13 Feb. 2022
  • In some of the footage, the filmmakers have strewn apples around the house in tableaux that almost romanticize the place.
    — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2017
  • That was true in the past that Heatherwick romanticizes, too.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Of course not to romanticize autism or say that people should have autism.
    — Kk Ottesen, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Yet the writers do not romanticize the life of the Ohio laborer.
    — cleveland, 30 Dec. 2021
  • JoJo Siwa, who many know as the girl with the high pony and big bow, has left that part of her life in the past and is romanticizing her rebrand.
    — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2024
  • None of this is meant to romanticize the Tenderloin in its current state.
    — Ryan Kost, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2020
  • On the show, Tony spoke of him in reverent tones, but Tony also had a tendency to romanticize the past.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2021
  • At the same time, Patel romanticizes her services to the advancement of her own ends.
    — Nora Caplan-Bricker, The New Republic, 4 June 2019
  • That’s a lot of what the book is about to me, not needing to romanticize the dead and validate our own experience with them.
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The notion of fall in New England and old money and that whole world is easy to romanticize, so giving it this big, huge bear hug in this movie was fun.
    — John Wenzel, The Know, 1 Dec. 2019
  • There is, in all of this, a temptation to romanticize what came before.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
  • But he was romanticized even (barely) in his time and much thereafter.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Okamoto echoes these challenges and is not one to romanticize the whole farm-to-table movement.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appetit, 24 Apr. 2017
  • Okamoto echoes these challenges and is not one to romanticize the whole farm-to-table movement.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appetit, 24 Apr. 2017
  • Sussman writes that figs and grapes have been romanticized in Jewish texts since ancient times.
    — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Guiding is easy to romanticize: you get paid to push boats through big waves, find untracked powder, and summit peaks.
    — Kitty Galloway, Outside Online, 10 Dec. 2021
  • To the south the memorials advanced the myth of the Lost Cause, which years after the insurrection failed romanticized its purpose.
    — Michael Miner, Chicago Reader, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Hats off to the filmmakers for not pulling punches and romanticizing this city’s past.
    — David Zurawik, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Perhaps the person will romanticize the act of driving.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • Even restaurants that align themselves with the farm-to-table movement can be just as guilty of romanticizing farm life.
    — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Some at The Post are chagrined at in the intimation that Spielberg has romanticized their role.
    — James Warren, The Hive, 6 Dec. 2017
  • And some on the left believe Kasich has been romanticized due to his opposition to Trump.
    — The Tylt, cleveland.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • But the partnership is unequal, and Zoabi is careful not to romanticize things.
    — Nora McGreevy, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • When the outlaw is reported dead, the widow romanticizes their tryst in a book that becomes a best-seller.
    — Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
  • That’s not to romanticize the pain and anger expressed by both Joseph and Sanchez, emotions that fuel their advocacy and work.
    — Julissa Arce, refinery29.com, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Her essay about the real, nonglamorous work of farming is a must-read for anyone who has romanticized the pursuit.
    — SFChronicle.com, 21 June 2019
  • Does the concept of a Hot Girl Ailment romanticize illness?
    — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 25 June 2021
  • There’s a related genre of video that encourages viewers to use the visual language of TV to romanticize their lives.
    — Kim Hew-Low, New York Times, 16 May 2024
  • The mythology around even the most routine sub-Cabinet gigs is easy to romanticize when mark-ups hit their fifth hour of pointless amendments.
    — Philip Elliott, TIME, 5 June 2024

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