How to Use demonize in a Sentence

demonize

verb

• Neither of us are interested in judging or demonizing or vilifying these people.
  — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2024
• While such generalizations have historically been used to demonize enemies, there is still a contrived tendency to divide the world into land and sea powers.
  — Colin Flint, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
• If that was 15 years ago, I’m dismayed by some of the ways we are demonized now.
  — Bobi Conn, TIME, 25 July 2024
• Schmid thinks stan culture need not be demonized, but used as a force for good.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 20 June 2024
• Their opponents had to be demonized on electoral hustings and on the floors of the House and Senate.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 26 May 2024
• Clark was demonized in the press and imprisoned for murder.
  — David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2023
• This flood of attention feels to him like one more way to demonize Black people and convey the sense that nothing has changed.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2022
• Felicia: Maybe because the Supreme Court and others on the right have managed to demonize unions.
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 11 May 2023
• This prediction came when jazz was being demonized by some, so was rather shocking at the time.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
• She was demonized by left-wing pundits and harassed by activists who even swarmed her in a bathroom.
  — The Editors, National Review, 6 Mar. 2024
• And the penalty is compounded when they are demonized as bad parents and kept from their children.
  — CNN, 11 Mar. 2023
• Donald Trump, Fox News, and the other organs in the right-wing universe are holding up Berliner’s 3,500-word piece to demonize the outlet.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
• But Pixar's latest movie is proving that isn't something to demonize.
  — Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2022
• And, from that, came a week of Amanda being demonized by the media, which was absolutely a breach of human rights.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2023
• She was demonized as crazy and out of control where she had once been admired, even idolized, for her nonconformist views.
  — Daphne Merkin, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
• From the time Donald Trump came down the escalator in 2015, some in the media have viciously demonized him.
  — Jimmy Conner, Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2024
• This isn’t an issue of Dad’s demand, but of dealing with a mind-set that demonizes, demeans and subjugates half the human race.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
• The apparent goal of the series was to avoid further demonizing the Branch Davidians, which the news media did plenty of at the time.
  — Joshua Alston, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
• While the film shows these changes aren't something to demonize, some parents found issue with the topic being brought into a children's movie.
  — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2022
• And stop demonizing @SenTuberville for calling you out.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
• This lawsuit doesn’t give any of us an excuse to demonize her because of her weight; that would be doing the exact violence she’s accused of.
  — Vulture, 2 Aug. 2023
• The political sport of demonizing those who come here for a better life is appalling.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2024
• And because of the diet industry’s tendency to demonize the whole group, sometimes the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater.
  — Rachel Reiff Ellis, Fortune, 26 July 2022
• The crowd cheered as Trump — who has a history of demonizing immigrants — told supporters White didn’t care for that plan.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 24 June 2024
• Tax-and-spend progressives continue to demonize one of the main drivers of the state’s economic success.
  — Jonathan Williams, National Review, 3 Nov. 2022
• Leave it to the former President to demonize his political opponents in the wake of an act of madness.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 May 2022
• Delaporte, the member of Parliament who co-sponsored the bill, said its goal is not to judge or demonize influencers.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
• After he was demonized in the press, Reubens spent the rest of the ‘90s quietly appearing in various supporting roles.
  — Nicholas Bell, Spin, 7 Aug. 2023
• With the Democrats facing a dire outlook in the midterm elections, the smartest political move for Biden would have been to demonize the Republicans as the armed-to-the-teeth party beholden to the gun lobby.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 3 June 2022
• Black religions, like Vodou and Santería, became key targets in this civilizing mission, demonized as pagan, savage, and dangerous.
  — Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús / Made By History, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024