How to Use commodify in a Sentence

commodify

verb

• I feel like our culture is being commodified.
• Do we really want to commodify our water supply?
• To allow parents to choose either life or death for their child is to commodify them.
  — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 25 Nov. 2020
• To commodify such a small pleasure would equate to no less than a middle finger to the millions of people who fly everyday.
  — Cnt Editors, CNT, 5 July 2017
• The real-estate business — one tiny golden sliver of it, anyway — keeps finding fresh ways to commodify chunks of the city.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 Oct. 2021
• The episode is a spot-on parody of both the torture of the creative process and the absurd ways that obsession with an artist’s personal narrative helps to commodify their work.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2021
• Services like Cameo also suggest, and queasily so, that there is no limit to what the gig economy can commodify.
  — Laurence Scott, Wired, 4 Feb. 2021
• The movie business can’t be allowed to commodify diversity for its own ends.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 22 June 2018
• Trixie’s ability to commodify and plan is evident in her own brand.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 24 June 2022
• The request hinges on a desire to commodify our social-media reach, to seem influential, and, perhaps, to align with a company that shares our values.
  — Laura Callaghan, Marie Claire, 11 Mar. 2021
• The passing of the Sept. 13 deadline also means the end of an era in which the U.S. defied a shift in global privacy norms, and allowed American companies to commodify consumer data.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2019
• In effect, then, men define, imprison, commodify and erase women.
  — Joan Frank, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2017
• In fact, the embrace of Black gymnasts often seems conditioned on the ability to commodify and capitalize on their labor and their Blackness.
  — Amira Rose Davis, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2022
• Yet some on the left say economic arguments commodify immigrants or denigrate the native work force.
  — Jason Deparle, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
• But race and racial tension — especially in the context of continued violence against people of color in the United States, an issue on which the public is deeply divided — are not quite as easy to simply commodify and brand.
  — Sarah Banet-Weiser, Vox, 7 Sep. 2018
• There are going to be examples, time and time again, of corporations or private interests trying to commodify, trying to exploit.
  — Justin Curto, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2021
• Tech companies and governments already use these data to monitor and commodify our likes and dislikes; soon psychiatrists might be able to use them to measure and evaluate our mental state.
  — Daniel Barron, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2021
• While commodifying a basic human need seemed horrifying at first, the Dreamery is an experience that even one of the most skeptical of editors enjoyed.
  — Chavie Lieber, Vox, 27 Dec. 2018
• Three women who have filed lawsuits in different states charge that surrogacy contracts are exploitative to birth mothers, create a class of women as breeders and commodify children.
  — Paige Winfield Cunningham, Washington Post, 17 May 2018
• The upcoming documentary will look at the origin and impact of music merchandise through the stories of pivotal musicians, designers, fans, and entrepreneurs who helped commodify artists.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 27 May 2022
• Selfies can skew gendered power dynamics by allowing women to commodify what they've been taught is their only value—their appearance.
  — Alicia Swiz, Chicago Reader, 10 Jan. 2018
• The satire takes aim not only at New Yorkers’ special relationship to the housing market but also at influencer culture: the now familiar mode of using social media to commodify the intimate details of one’s life for clout or ad dollars.
  — Natalie Meade, The New Yorker, 14 July 2021
• Given that scientists from every corner of the globe agree that the world has an ever-shortening window to curb emissions, allowing the extractive industries an easier path to commodify the Earth is extremely alarming.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 10 Jan. 2020
• Suddenly, every slur, insult, and caricature seems like a golden opportunity to commodify and profit from the most repellent sound bites.
  — Sonia K. Katyal, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2018
• Triumphant robotic capitalism employs new technologies to automate and commodify work so that the political defeat of the bottom 50 percent can be extended to the bottom 90 percent.
  — Rana Dasgupta, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
• Unfettered by the weight of the symbolism embedded in Juneteenth, creative imaginations can concoct a million ways to commodify and monetize its recent arrival on the federal calendar.
  — Aronte Bennett, Forbes, 3 June 2022
• Of course, simple positions are easier to commodify, too, like Riaz’s sponsorship of Sufi organizations that brand Islam as friendly and loving.
  — Amir-Hussein Radjy, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2021
• For the novel today, the more valid aesthetic and ethical questions concern the possibility of speaking about trauma without commodifying or further devaluing it.
  — Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• Articulating trauma can commodify it, the art scene of Candyman demonstrates, by both alienating the artists themselves and making the audience complicit in perpetuating the same images of violence.
  — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 27 Aug. 2021
• That competition is intensified for female actresses, who not only commodify their personas but also their bodies.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 4 June 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024