How to Use dramatize in a Sentence

dramatize

verb

• The book is dramatized in a new play.
• The movie dramatizes her early life.
• This tragedy dramatizes the need for improvements in highway safety.
• She cited a series of statistics to dramatize the seriousness of the problem.
• I know I tend to dramatize things but it really was awful.
• The rest of the episode would dramatize the story for the viewers.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2019
• The film dramatized the events and starred Judd Nelson as Hunt.
  — Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
• Both shows dramatize real events from the 1990s that made for great TV at the time, and both make for great TV in their own right.
  — David Klion, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2021
• So right from the get-go, our goal was to take the idea of infinity and dramatize it.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Mar. 2022
• The clock was created in 1945 to dramatize the atomic bomb’s danger to the world.
  — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
• That’s the latest twist in the Hollywood I.P. gambit: Help build the myth, then dramatize the fall.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2022
• So on Thursday, the committee sought to dramatize the stakes of its work.
  — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
• So Thursday, the committee sought to dramatize the stakes of its work.
  — Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Oct. 2022
• The Guardian’s story dramatizes and misstates the facts of what occurred.
  — Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue, 25 Oct. 2019
• Even if the chauvinism of the time was dramatized, the Howard Cosell commentary in the movie was real.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• The film dramatizes the true crime story chronicled in author David Grann’s 2017 book of the same name.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
• But a very turbulent journey, which is sure to be dramatized in seasons three and four of The Crown.
  — Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, 5 Nov. 2019
• This isn't the first time the family has been accused of dramatizing events in their lives.
  — Blake Bakkila, Good Housekeeping, 8 May 2019
• As if to dramatize the entire point of the campaign, that year, Walton’s landlord forced her out of her Lemon Street rental.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2021
• The photo was captured in Palm Springs, where a new play dramatizes how people of color lost their haven in the desert.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2024
• The film dramatizes the tragic story of the Von Erich family.
  — Jake Coyle, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2023
• Hulu will dramatize one of the most talked about criminal cases of the past few years.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2024
• It was meant to dramatize the suffering of the marginalized in a way that the powerful could not ignore.
  — Mika Edmondson, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2017
• Romeo and Juliet has always been a play in which Shakespeare tries to dramatize love.
  — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 24 Apr. 2021
• What a strange and daring thing for the great and greatly missed Sondheim to dramatize, and for Friedman to forefront.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• The technique dramatizes a quandary of Diana’s life, as her existence seemed to both clutch at and strain away from his.
  — Tobi Haslett, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
• That gives you the best of history to work with and the latitude to dramatize and make up your own storyline.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2022
• Michelle O’Neill’s accession to office as the leader of the largest party in the assembly dramatizes the end of that project.
  — Amy Cassidy, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
• Now a new film, aptly tiled Bombshell, is dramatizing the story and bringing it to the big screen.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Glamour, 15 Oct. 2019
• The pair landed a deal with Netflix to dramatize their serendipitous relationship.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024